TikTok internal letter exposed: Will fight U.S. divestiture bill in court

According to news from Beijing time on April 22, 2022, Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy in the Americas, said in a memo sent to TikTok’s US employees , the company will fight in court if the divestiture bill is signed into law. Currently, TikTok is fending off an existential crisis in its most important market.

On Saturday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a revised TikTok divestment bill, giving ByteDance up to one year to sell TikTok, otherwise it will be banned in the United States. The U.S. Senate will consider the bill on Tuesday and is expected to pass it and be signed by U.S. President Joe Biden. Biden has said he will sign the bill into U.S. law.

This is an unprecedented agreement between the Republican deal chief and President Biden. We will launch a legal challenge in court once the bill is signed into law. Beckman said in the memo.

Beckman pointed out that this “sell or ban” bill clearly violates the rights of TikTok’s 170 million American users under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and will impose severe consequences on the 7 million small businesses on this short video platform. causing "devastating consequences". "We will continue to fight," he said in the memo. "This is just the beginning of this long process, not the end."

Previously, TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi had been leading the company's campaign against the U.S. Congress Scope's lobbying effort hopes to convince members of Congress that the company is not a security risk.

As of press time, a TikTok spokesperson had not commented on the memo.

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