TikTok, the ban in the USA is law: sale within 9 months or blocked in the country. The CEO: «We will appeal and we will win»

It has over 1 billion monthly active users, is available in over 150 countries around the world, is worth 225 billion dollars and only in the United States reached the record figure of 16 billion in revenues in 2023. These are some numbers TikTok, the app that has conquered young people with short videos on smartphones, a format later copied by Instagram and YouTube. Today American President Joe Biden signed the law to ban it in the United States after the Senate also voted in favor, if the Chinese were to refuse to sell it. But the CEO’s reaction was very clear. “Rest assured, we’re not going anywhere,” Shou Zi Chew said. “The facts and the Constitution are on our side and we expect to still have the upper hand,” he adds in a video released after American President Joe Biden signed the law approved by Congress requiring Chinese ByteDance to sell within nine months the app that is used by 170 million Americans in the United States. But does the ban really mean the end of TikTok in the US? Where could this scenario be replicated?

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