TikTok’s future in the United States now sits squarely in the hands of the Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments Friday. At its core, the case features a head-on collision between national security and the First Amendment.

What Are The Arguments For Banning Tiktok? The federal government emphasized in its brief to the Supreme Court the “grave national security threats” it believes keeping TikTok

The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China’s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.