The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell the platform or face a ban in the U.S., raising the prospect that the social media app goes “dark” Sunday for its 170 million users in the country.
A law passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April required that the popular social media site’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, divest the short-video site or it would not be allowed to operate in the U.S. on national security grounds.
“As of January 19, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will make it unlawful for companies in the United States to provide services to distribute, maintain, or update the social media platform TikTok, unless U. S. operation of the platform is severed from Chinese control,” the Supreme Court said in a statement.
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