Kentucky took aim at Chinese company Temu, alleging in a lawsuit that it counterfeited popular Kentucky-designed merchandise and violated customers’ privacy.

Temu, an online shopping app owned by the multibillion-dollar Chinese company PDD Holdings, has quickly become one of the most downloaded apps in the U.S., despite warnings about poor privacy controls and ties to China’s communist government.

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