“To ensure that the law is enforced and that our businesses and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the executive order (signed by Mr. Trump) through the judicial system,” the group said in a statement sent to the French news agency AFP.
On Thursday, the President of the United States said he supported an offer by Oracle to buy TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing application, although negotiations with Microsoft are already underway, Bloomberg said.
According to the economic news agency, the computer company Oracle, whose president, Larry Ellison, offered millions of dollars in funds for Trump’s presidential campaign, will be in the race to acquire TikTok’s activities in the United States, Canada, Australia and New York. Zealand.
Contacted by AFP, the group declined to comment on the information provided by Bloomberg.
Responding on Tuesday to several questions from journalists after speaking in Arizona, Trump indicated that Oracle is an “excellent company” and that President Larry Ellison is a “formidable person”.
The Trump administration gave 90 days to the Chinese group owned by TikTok, ByteDance, to quickly sell the network’s operations in the United States, failing to block them in the country, arguing with “national security problems”.
On the 6th of this month, Trump issued an executive order to ban TikTok and WeChat, the social network of Chinese Tencent, from carrying out any transactions with US partners, considering them a threat to the security, foreign policy and economy of United States.
Trump has accused the popular video-sharing platform of using American user data to benefit Beijing in recent months, without providing any evidence.
“TikTok is not available in China. US user data is stored in Virginia, backed up in Singapore. TikTok has never provided any data on Americans to the Chinese Government and would not do so if asked” , responded those responsible for the platform.
Against a backdrop of high commercial and political tensions with China, the White House tenant has taken radical steps against the network, which is very popular with young people.
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