President-elect Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order on Monday to postpone the ban on TikTok from going into effect.
Starting Sunday, if the company is not sold, app stores and cloud providers who continue to host it will face billions of dollars in fines.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew thanked Donald Trump for his commitment to "finding a solution" that keeps TikTok available in the U.S. after the ruling.
The Supreme Court upheld a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States. Here's what to know about the potential ban.
In an unanimous ruling handed down on Friday morning, January 17 in TikTok v. Merrick B. Garland, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a TikTok ban that is scheduled to go into effect on Sunday, January 19 unless ByteDance — the video sharing platform's owner in Mainland China — divests itself.
Here is what Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Kentanji Brown Jackson and Chief Justice John Roberts said about TikTok's Chinese parent company.
TikTok's attorney's on Friday reiterated the popular app will shut down, rather than make a last-minute deal to keep it active in the U.S., if the app's looming ban is not overturned by the Supreme Court.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said Sunday he is aware that the possible TikTok ban “is controversial,” yet the app “has a national security risk to it.” “I imagine [there’s going to] be a
Pope Francis on Sunday made his debut on TikTok to publicize his new autobiography, written with journalist Carlo Musso for Mondadori. The same clip, in which Pope Francis thanks Musso for "his patience" in listening to his memories,
TikTok isn’t the villain here. It’s a symptom of a much larger issue: the lack of clear, enforceable rules for data privacy and security. Instead of banning the app, the government should focus on fixing the system.
Trump filed a surprise brief urging the Supreme Court to delay enforcement until he could broker a deal — though it’s unclear if the Chinese government would approve one. Tiffany Cianci was finishing a TikTok live stream to 70,
The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.