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TikTok Says It Will 'Go Dark' Without US Court Intervention

TikTok said it would "go dark" in January if the Supreme Court didn't extend a divestment deadline, stopping videos for existing users.

TikTok said it would "go dark" in the US later this month if the Supreme Court failed to extend a January 19 divestment deadline set by a divest-or-ban law. During oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Friday, the company's attorney Noel Francisco said TikTok's partners, like app-store hosts and other service providers, would stop working with it if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, failed to divest its US operations by the deadline. The company lost its case in the District of Columbia Circuit last month, and it's now asking the Supreme Court for an emergency injunction to pause its divestment deadline.

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