NC Supreme Court weighs whether state can pursue TikTok lawsuit

By: Clayton Henkel

Outlets: North Carolina Newsline

Published: September 9, 2026

Words: 754

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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Millions of North Carolinians routinely download and use TikTok for entertainment, news and advertising. But its popularity in the state doesn’t mean that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, should be tried here, attorneys for the social media giant argued Wednesday before the North Carolina Supreme Court.

The case stems from an October 2024 lawsuit filed by then-Attorney General Josh Stein in which a bipartisan group of attorneys general sued ByteDance for designing the app to …

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