TikTok lawsuit over Montana law dismissed in federal court

By: Jordan Hansen

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: February 27, 2026

Words: 479

Last Updated: 1 week, 5 days ago

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A lawsuit over a 2023 Senate Bill that sought to ban TikTok in Montana has been jointly dismissed in federal court.

The Trump Administration, the Chinese government and TikTok reached an agreement in late January to sell American operations of the company to a joint consortium of companies that include Larry Ellison’s tech giant, Oracle, and Silver Lake, a venture capital firm. As part of the deal, ByteDance, which owns Tiktok, retains a 19.9% …

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