A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law that would ban TikTok nationwide if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the popular social media app to an American company by Jan. 19, 2025.
In its unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit wrote, “We recognize that this decision has significant implications for TikTok and its users.” If its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not divest from the platform, the court said it “will effectively be unavailable in the United States, at least for a time.”
ByteDance, which petitioned the court to overturn the law, is expected to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s unclear whether the justices would take up the case.
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