A lot of gray area remains regarding what will happen next in the TikTok saga in the coming days and weeks. One thing that is already clear is that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the ban on the app based on the nationality of its ownership is unprecedented for
First launched in the United States in 2018, the app quickly became the most downloaded social and entertainment app in the world. By 2020, when Americans were looking for ways to
Political shifts and legal hurdles have delayed TikTok's removal, with Biden reportedly kicking the issue to Trump.
The Supreme Court has decided to uphold the law that will ban TikTok on Jan. 19 if its parent company ByteDance continues to refuse to sell the app before then.
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will compel ByteDance to sell its interest in TikTok.
The Supreme Court issued its opinion on the looming ban of TikTok in America upholding that the law will stay in effect, essentially forcing the app’s Chinese owner to sell its American holdings by Sunday or be forced to go dark.
While TikTok remains hugely popular in Brazil, Indonesia and other markets, its 170 million users in the United States are its most valuable.
The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.
TikTok's parent company is asking the Supreme Court to halt a law that would require the company to sell TikTok to a U.S. firm or face a ban.
TikTok has shut down in the US, and the app is no longer available to download on mobile. The company has now pinned its hopes on President-elect Donald Trump.
The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.
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