The US WeChat Users Alliance filed a lawsuit to halt Trump’s Aug 6 order that will prohibit residents from doing transactions with Tencent Holdings Ltd’s WeChat as well as with ByteDance Ltd’s TikTok starting this month. — Reuters
A group of WeChat users trying to block a US ban of the Chinese "SuperApp” can’t challenge President Donald Trump’s authority to make national security decisions, the United States said.
"To hold otherwise would allow a group of social media users to substitute their subjective judgment” for that of the president "merely because they are unable to use an app that they prefer,” the government said on Sept 9 in a filing in San Francisco federal court.
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