American content creators on TikTok asked followers to subscribe to their channels on rival platforms like Meta-owned (META) Instagram and Alphabet’s (GOOG) (GOOGL) YouTube after a federal appeals court ruled that the social media app could be banned if it is not sold to a U.S.-based company by January 19, Reuters’ Seher Dareen reports. The U.S. Congress, fearing TikTok’s Chinese owners are gathering information about American consumers, has passed a law requiring its owner, Chinese-backed ByteDance, to divest its TikTok in the U.S. or face a ban. On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld the law.
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