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WeChat ban urged by US gets sceptical review by appeal court
The Trump administration’s attempt to reinstate US restrictions on the Chinese-owned WeChat app was met with scepticism by a judicial panel.The US Court of Appeals in San Francisco signalled on Thursday it was largely sceptical of efforts to overturn the decision of a federal magistrate judge, who last year granted a preliminary injunction to WeChat users in the US who said the government restrictions amounted to an outright ban in violation of their right of free speech.Circuit Judge Ryan D…