
A separate suit filed the same day by TikTok's U.S. The lawsuit against the Trump administration's order was filed on August 24, and contended that the administration's order was motivated by Trump's efforts to boost re-election support through protectionist trade policies aimed at China. TikTok would later announce plans to file legal action challenging the order's transactional prohibitions with U.S. The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance-which initially planned on selling a small portion of TikTok to an American company-agreed to divest TikTok to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries where restrictions are also being considered due to privacy concerns, which themselves are mostly related to its ownership by a firm based in China. president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat.

government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then- U.S.
