The complaint, filed Friday in San Francisco, is being brought by the nonprofit US WeChat Users Alliance and people who say they rely on the app for work.
LOS ANGELES — Some U.S.-based users of WeChat are suing President Donald Trump in a bid to block an executive order that they say would effectively bar access in the U.S. to the hugely popular Chinese messaging app.
“We think there's a First Amendment interest in providing continued access to that app and its functionality to the Chinese-American community,” Michael Bien, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys, said Saturday. It remains unclear what the orders will mean for the apps’ millions of users in the U.S., but experts have said the orders appear intended to bar WeChat and TikTok from the app stores run by Apple and Google. That would make them more difficult to use in the U.S.
WeChat, which has more than 1 billion users, is less well-known than TikTok to Americans without a connection to China.
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