TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in Washington, DC on Tuesday February 14, 2023.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew.
  • President Joe Biden signed the TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law on Wednesday.
  • TikTok said it would challenge the law in court, citing First-Amendment violations.
  • Legal experts said Congress' national-security argument could still win over free-speech concerns in courts.

Congress passed a bill this week that will force TikTok's owner to sell its US assets or face removal from mobile-app stores. President Joe Biden signed the bill into law on Wednesday. Parent company ByteDance now has between 9 months and a year to sell or spin off the app in the US.

What comes next will be an all-out legal battle.