Donald Trump had asked the Supreme Court to delay TikTok’s ban-or-sale law to give him an opportunity to act once he returns to the White House.

The Supreme Court upheld on Friday a law banning TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it, putting the popular short-video app on track to go dark in just two days.

Political shifts and legal hurdles have delayed TikTok's removal, with Biden reportedly kicking the issue to Trump.

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.

Some TikTok users broke down in tears and engaged in profanity-laced rants after the Supreme Court upheld a law to ban the social media app if it is not sold.

The U.S. Supreme Court officially upheld the law to ban the TikTok social media app on Friday.

The Supreme Court ruled that the TikTok divest-or-ban law is constitutional

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.

If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that's probably because it has, at least if you're measuring via internet time. What's now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so,

That comes after a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold a federal law banning TikTok unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, Bytedance. View on euronews

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