AG Jonathan Skrmetti joins state coalition supporting legislation prohibiting TikTok

In the same week TikTok announced it will be moving its Nashville operations to a space in Midtown, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined a coalition of states supporting legislation that would prohibit the social media app in Montana.

According to a release, Montana’s legislation specifies the company must separate from its Chinese parent, ByteDance, to be allowed to operate in the state. But the law was blocked in November by a district court judge who issued a preliminary injunction stating the law “oversteps state power.”