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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

The Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the TikTok ban, meaning that the video app is poised to be shuttered in the U.S. this weekend.

The Supreme Court has upheld the law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday or face an effective ban of the popular social video app in the U.S. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration, upholding the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act which President Joe Bidensigned in April. The Chinese government also weighed a contingency plan that would have Elon Musk acquire TikTok's U.S. operations as part of several options intended to keep the app from its effective ban in the U.S., Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

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