The TikTok ban is back in court — in Meta’s antitrust trial

TikTok is backmost successful a Washington, DC courthouse discussing the US instrumentality that - astatine slightest connected insubstantial - efficaciously banned the app. But this time, it's serving arsenic a witnesser for the government, not warring against it.

On Wednesday, TikTok's caput of operations and spot and information Adam Presser testified successful the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust proceedings against Meta, in the aforesaid courthouse wherever a sheet of judges ruled that the government could expel TikTok from the country. Presser's relation successful the Meta proceedings was to explicate the ways successful which TikTok competes (or doesn't) with Meta's services successful a marketplace the FTC has defined arsenic idiosyncratic societal networking - a class the FTC says contains lone Meta's services, Snapchat, and a tiny app called MeWe.

Lawyers for some the FTC and Meta brought up filings TikTok made successful its ain litigation against the 2024 divest-or-ban law, which required Chinese genitor institution ByteDance to merchantability its US business. (President Donald Trump has utilized dubious ineligible measures to widen the deadline for enforcement twice, leaving TikTok's work providers facing the imaginable for billions of dollars successful penalties portion saying he's moving connected a deal.) The FTC pointed to a TikT …

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