Last August TikTok sued the US government in front of a Federal Court, alleging that the US Department of Justice has misstated the social media app’s ties to China. The claim aims to overturn a recent law that requires China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok U.S. assets or face a ban. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Application Act, signed into law earlier this year, requires TikTok’s American offices to separate from Chinese jurisdiction if the platform wants to continue service in the United States. The company complains the law violates its First Amendment rights, hitting a platform used by over 150 million Americans. ByteDance said the law unfairly singles out TikTok and bars Americans from “participating in a unique online community,” according to a legal brief from the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. On the other side, the US Justice Department lawyers said that TikTok is a menace to national security, considered that allows Chinese Government to collect data of American people and manipulate contents that they see. Adam Klein, director of UT’s Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, commented that the law focuses less on restricting content and more on national security concerns tied to TikTok’s ownership. Both ByteDance and the federal government requested a ruling by Dec. 6, as the federal law is set to take effect on Jan. 19. A ruling against ByteDance could force the company to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations or shut down the platform entirely in the country.