ByteDance has so far rebuffed the idea of selling TikTok. But the lawyer for the US government told the Supreme Court that a ban might be just the “jolt” needed to persuade it to consider the idea, noting that restrictions could be lifted once a deal materialises.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh brought up past examples of the U.S. blocking broadcasting companies from having ties to foreign governments and brought up the government’s concerns about TikTok collecting data on U.S. users, which he said “seems like a huge concern for the future of the country.”

The Supreme Court upheld a law that requires TikTok's Chinese owner to sell off the app's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban Sunday.

The Supreme Court put TikTok imminently out of business in the US—at least temporarily—by upholding a law that will ban US app stores and hosting providers from providing services to the ByteDance-owned social platform starting Sunday.

The US Supreme Court has upheld the Biden administration's TikTok ban, effective January 19, one day before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. With the Supreme Court's decision, TikTok's legal options are exhausted,

The nation’s highest court ruled on Friday that the law banning the popular social media platform is constitutional

In a bipartisan bill passed last year, congress expressed concern over TikTok parent company ByteDance’s ties to the Chinese government. Technically, the Beijing-based company is subject to oversight by the Chinese Communist Party,

The Supreme Court ruled that the law that could oust TikTok from the US unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells it is constitutional as applied to the company. “There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans,