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TikTok has 170M users. Supreme Court will likely side against them.

Some of the 170 million Americans who use TikTok say the stakes couldn’t be higher.

WASHINGTON − Some of the 170 million Americans who use TikTok to sell cookies, promote books by Black authors, comment on sports, advocate for sexual assault survivors and more say the stakes couldn’t be higher when the Supreme Court on Friday debates the fate of the wildly popular short-form video app. “They are fairly reluctant to second guess the decisions of the political branches on that weighty topic,” said Hans, who signed onto a brief supporting TikTok but isn’t optimistic the free speech concerns will win out. And the goal of preventing China from using TikTok to shape U.S. opinion or spread disinformation doesn’t violate the Constitution because “a foreign sovereign has no First Amendment right to covertly manipulate a U.S. platform.”

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