Political shifts and legal hurdles have delayed TikTok's removal, with Biden reportedly kicking the issue to Trump.
The U.S. Supreme Court officially upheld the law to ban the TikTok social media app on Friday.
Now that TikTok has finally reached the end of its legal options in the US to avoid a ban, somehow, its future seems less clear than ever. The Supreme Court couldn’t have been more direct: the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,
After hearing arguments on Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to uphold the law, meaning that TikTok will be banned effective if the parent company ByteDance does not sell the company by Sunday.
The company says it plans to go dark after the Supreme Court upheld a sell-or-ban law, but Trump could intervene.
The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld a lower court ruling that the app TikTok owned by China’s ByteDance must sell itself or be banned in the U.S.
As TikTok’s fate hangs in the balance, roughly 170 million users across the United States face the possibility of losing access to the app, which has become the focal point of a growing national security debate.
With the ban upheld by the Supreme Court and the Biden administration leaving, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is banking on Trump to save the app in the US.
The Supreme Court has unanimously decided to uphold the ban on TikTok. Over half of TikTok users are from Generation Z.
TikTok may get a 90-day extension to save it from its imminent ban if President-Elect Donald Trump decides so.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a congressional ban on TikTok unless its owner sells the app, a ruling that could significantly affect millions of American users, including creators in Acadiana.