Ryan, who is leading a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for his lawsuit, says he is not speaking on behalf of TikTok and is not connected to the company’s legal effort. — AFP
A TikTok employee joined the fight against the Trump administration’s efforts to ban the Chinese-owned social media network in the US, saying the government action would unconstitutionally deprive him of a job.
Patrick Ryan, a technical program manager who joined TikTok in March after nearly a decade at Google, filed his lawsuit Monday in federal court in San Francisco, hours after the company filed its own constitutional challenge in federal court in Los Angeles.
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