U.S government

This year, the U.S. Congress passed a law to force the Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a nationwide shutdown.

Musk has been giving away $US1 million ($AU1.52 million) a day to a random winner — selected from a pool of people who’ve signed an online petition “to support free speech”.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a lawsuit against the company on Wednesday.