TikTok is in a pickle, as the user-generated content platform edges closer to deportation from the US. This comes as a US federal appeals court ruled to reject TikTok’s appeal against a forced sale of the US division from its current Chinese owner, ByteDance, to a non-Chinese company. While TikTok and US regulators have been at a years-long loggerheads, the situation escalated from April this year when President Biden signed a law that gave ByteDance until mid-January 2025 to sell TikTok’s US branch to a new owner certified by the US government. Weeks later, in May 2024, TikTok sued to block this law. Some seven months later, TikTok’s appeal has failed, and the company now has less than a month…