A North Carolina Business Court judge will allow the state to continue pursuing its lawsuit against TikTok and corporate parent ByteDance. A court order Tuesday denied TikTok’s motions to dismiss the case on various grounds.
North Carolina had already joined a growing wave of states taking action against TikTok amid broad concerns over national security and data privacy.
The US Supreme Court has upheld a federal law set to take effect Sunday that bans American companies from working with TikTok unless operation of the social media platform is severed from Chinese control.
NC is one of 13 states suing TikTok over children's mental health concerns.
US Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, received a threatening voicemail from a caller who said she would “find him and shoot him and cut him into pieces” if he voted to ban the social media platform TikTok when a bill banning it comes up for a vote in the Senate.
