Supreme Court agrees to hear TikTok challenge to law that could ban it in U.S.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok’s challenge to a federal law that could ban the popular social media app in the United States if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the platform to an American company.

TikTok appealed to the high court after a federal appeals court earlier this month upheld the law that is set to go into effect on Jan. 19. The company, owned by China-based ByteDance, then asked the federal appeals court to block the law from going into effect temporarily, pending the outcome of its appeal to the Supreme Court. The federal appeals court denied that request.

The Supreme Court granted review of TikTok’s challenge a day after the company filed its appeal. The justices have scheduled oral arguments in the case for Jan. 10.

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