A US federal court of appeals has unanimously ruled that ByteDance must sell TikTok by mid-January or face being banned in the country. A US federal appeals court has unanimously upheld a ruling requiring ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to either sell the platform or face a ban in the United States. This decision underscores growing national security concerns surrounding TikTok’s data practices and its links to the Chinese government. The ruling, which aligns with a 2020 executive order that first called for ByteDance to divest from TikTok, follows years of debates over whether the app poses a…