The Latest: The Supreme Court to consider a possible TikTok ban
The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app’s fate in their hands. The popular social media platform says the law violates the First Amendment and should be struck down.
TikTok’s Founder Has a Formula for Everything. Can It Crack the Supreme Court?
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 at Supreme Court: What to know as divest-or-ban deadline looms
The Supreme Court will consider the landmark TikTok ban, balancing free speech and national security over ByteDance’s Chinese ownership risks.
TikTok takeaways: Supreme Court appears likely to uphold impending ban
The Supreme Court appeared to favor the government's national security claims over TikTok's 1st Amendment argument.
Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of TikTok’s Arguments Against Ban
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Friday voiced skepticism of TikTok’s challenge to a federal law requiring the China-based social-media app to shut down or find new owners by Jan. 19. The court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the bipartisan bill President Biden signed last April that classifies the app,
TikTok Warns of Broader Consequences if US Supreme Court Allows Ban
The lawyer for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance offered a warning during Supreme Court arguments over a law that would compel the sale of the short-video app or ban it in the United States: If Congress could do this to TikTok,
Creators hope the Supreme Court will save TikTok
As Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in a case that could ban TikTok in the U.S., creators outside the court said losing the platform would be devastating.
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ByteDance used TikTok data before to spy on Americans, US says in Supreme Court showdown
The US told the Supreme Court during oral arguments over the TikTok ban that the Chinese government has previously used data ...
ByteDance’s Lemon8 gains traction amid TikTok ban threat as creators push the app
Hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately? You’re not the only one. Amid a looming U.S. ban on TikTok, content creators have been ...
TikTok parent ByteDance denies its secret algorithms create filter bubbles
An executive from Chinese social media giant ByteDance played down the role of its content-recommendation algorithms in ...
Will TikTok verdict by US top court set the tone for China ties under Trump 2.0?
Both Beijing and Chinese firms seeking US business will be following the TikTok case for signals on what the future holds, ...
Supreme Court seems reluctant to overturn TikTok ban
Francisco served as solicitor general in Donald Trump’s first term in office. The president-elect has asked the Supreme Court to pause the ban’s Jan. 19 deadline to enable him to make a deal after he ...
Think the TikTok Ban Won’t Happen? Think Again.
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance face a law specifically written by Congress about them. Here, however, they’re not ...
‘Go dark’: TikTok on the verge of being switched off
A lawyer for social media giant TikTok has warned the hugely popular app could “go dark” if a proposed US ban is upheld by the highest court in the land.