The Supreme Court hears TikTok's case to toss out a ban just nine days before it will take effect. The Biden administration defends the measure on national security grounds.

He bought his first home by devising a formula to identify Beijing’s best community. And he became China’s richest person after creating TikTok, the massively popular app built around an algorithm that predicts the videos people would enjoy based on their previous activity.

TikTok faced Congress’s concerns over data harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Congress labeled the app’s Chinese ownership a national security risk and passed a law that would ban the social media platform unless it was sold. TikTok and creators say that violates their free speech rights.

TikTok has just ten days until it faces a possible ban in the US. If the Supreme Court declines to halt the law before January 19th, and TikTok isn’t spun off from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, companies like Apple and Google will be forced to stop maintaining the app in their app stores or letting it push updates.

Within days, TikTok could be banned from being distributed in the United States and, eventually, stop working as an app altogether if the U.S. Supreme Court does not intervene to block a bipartisan law that is set to take effect on Jan. 19.

If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to “go dark” on Jan. 19

If the Supreme Court votes to uphold the law that President Joe Biden signed in April, TikTok will shut down on January 19th, the day before Donald Trump takes office. The popular social media platform is used by hundreds of millions of people, including well over a hundred million in the U.S.

TikTok creators are posting videos promoting ways to get around a looming shutdown of the app in the US, which could spell trouble for Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and other American tech companies required by law to enforce the ban or risk potentially billions in fines.

WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court seemed inclined on Friday (Jan 10) to uphold a law that would force a sale or ban the popular short-video app TikTok in the United States by Jan 19, with the just

The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court. The justices largely hold the app’s fate in their hands as they hear the case Friday.