Evening Edition: TikTok Files Suit Against Montana Over Ban

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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TikTok has filed a lawsuit challenging Montana's new statewide ban of the social media site saying it violates their First Amendment rights. Montana said they acted when Congress would not and state officials say they are confident the ban will stand. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Lauren Simonetti, FOX Business Network correspondent, about the lawsuit and the chances it will overturn the ban. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Ainsley Earhart.
0:01.0	I'm Charles Payne.
0:02.0	I'm Martha McCallum, and this is The Fox News rundown.
0:05.4	Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023, I'm John Sossier.
0:13.1	The state of Montana is into a legal battle now over whether or not they can actually ban
0:16.8	the use of TikTok in state.
0:19.2	The controversial social media app linked to China has been fighting for survival in
0:23.4	the US and Montana has become the first state to ban it.
0:27.2	But can they even do that?
0:28.8	The TikTok ban prohibits the use of TikTok by anyone physically present in the state,
0:35.2	including visitors and others passing through.
0:38.6	And that's what makes it so legally confusing and challenging and overreaching and quite
0:43.3	difficult to enforce.
0:45.0	This is The Fox News rundown, evening edition.
0:52.0	From The Fox News Podcasts Network.
0:54.2	I'm Ben Dominech, Fox News contributor and editor of the transom.com daily newsletter.
0:58.9	And I'm inviting you to join a conversation every week.
1:01.6	It's The Ben Dominech Podcast.
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1:07.5	The clock could be ticking on TikTok, but the Chinese-based app and its parent company
1:11.2	by dancer fighting back.
1:13.2	They now have a federal lawsuit against the state of Montana, which has come up with a new
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