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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
The Supreme Court has upheld the law that will effectively ban TikTok on Sunday, January 19. The decision marks the end of TikTok’s months-long legal
The decision marks the end of TikTok’s months-long legal fight against a law that essentially forces the ByteDance-owned app to shut down unless it divests its US operations. The decision comes days after TikTok pleaded its case before the nation’s highest court, arguing that the law conflicts with the First Amendment, and that the social network needed extra time to allow President elect-Donald Trump to act to save the app. Throughout the legal battle, TikTok argued that divesting the app’s U.S. operations would be impossible because China would prevent the export of the social network’s algorithm.
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