“We aren’t going anywhere,” says TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew as app prepares legal counter-attack

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told the platform’s users that “we aren’t going anywhere” after US President Joe Biden signed the sell-or-ban bill targeting the app into law, giving TikTok’s Chinese parent company nine to 12 months to divest. “The facts and the Constitution are on our side and we expect to prevail again,” Chew said in a video on Wednesday. TikTok is expected to robustly challenge the move in the US courts. The law comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken begins his visit to China, where he expects to meet the country’s foreign minister Wang Yi. Context: TikTok, along with its Chinese owner ByteDance, spent over $7 million on in-house lobbyists and digital ad campaigns this year in an effort to avert the bill passing, according to lobbying disclosure reports cited by CNBC.