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.

The US Supreme Court has upheld the law mandating China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday, or face an effective ban of the popular video-sharing app in the United States. The ruling underscores growing national security concerns tied to TikTok’s data collection practices and alleged links to the Chinese government,

The Supreme Court said it may announce opinions on Friday, a last-minute addition that comes just two days before a law that would ban TikTok is set to go into effect.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned on Sunday in the United States on national security grounds - a major blow to a platform used by nearly half of all Americans.

Essentially, the platform shuts down," TikTok lawyer Noel Francisco told the Supreme Court last week ... TikTok and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. U.S. tech publication The Information first ...

ByteDance, a China based company and TikTok’s parent company, has been given until Sunday to sell TikTok or to be completely banned in the U.S. according to the law signed by United States President Joe Biden in April 2024. The Supreme Court held a hearing to discuss the future of TikTok in the United States on Jan. 10.

But TikTok lawyer Noel Francisco stated the site would "go dark" on Sunday ... would constitute direct defiance of US authorities and likely intensify scrutiny of ByteDance's US operations. - Defiance? - Once Trump takes office, the law's implementation ...

Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok’s ownership by China-based ByteDance and the ... “go dark” on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf ...

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Social-media giant ByteDance, China's most valuable unicorn, on Thursday unveiled its Seed Edge initiative, a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) research programme that is expected to shore up the TikTok owner's efforts in the fast-developing technology.