The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law set to ban social media platform TikTok in less than 48 hours.
The Supreme Court unanimously found the new law that could lead to a ban of TikTok does not violate the First Amendment rights of the platform or its users.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a new law that would lead to a ban of the social media platform TikTok, clearing the way for the widely popular app to be forced to shutter in the U.S. as soon as Sunday.
U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.
TikTok is widely expected to go dark on Sunday – leaving more than 170 million American users unable to access the China-owned app.
The popular social media app TikTok will likely go dark for its 170 million American users this Sunday, Jan. 19, after months of fighting the federal government’s demand that it separate from its China-based parent company,
Citing national security, the Supreme Court rules that TikTok can be banned if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell the app by Sunday.