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TikTok faces an uphill battle to avoid a US ban if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the wildly popular social media app, judging from a grilling by an appellate court panel.A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit signaled skepticism of TikTok’s argument Monday that the law signed by President Joe Biden banning the video-sharing app would violate the company’s free speech rights. The US government argued that national security concerns about TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance Ltd., manipulating the content American audiences see justified the law. Source link lol