After hearing arguments on Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to uphold the law, meaning that TikTok will be banned effective if the parent company ByteDance does not sell the company by Sunday.

Now that TikTok has finally reached the end of its legal options in the US to avoid a ban, somehow, its future seems less clear than ever. The Supreme Court couldn’t have been more direct: the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,

Shares in TikTok competitors were little helped on Friday after the high court let the ban stand, indicating that investors are not convinced it will happen. Today, the United States Supreme Court announced its ruling to uphold the TikTok ban.

The company says it plans to go dark after the Supreme Court upheld a sell-or-ban law, but Trump could intervene.

The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld a lower court ruling that the app TikTok owned by China’s ByteDance must sell itself or be banned in the U.S.

As TikTok’s fate hangs in the balance, roughly 170 million users across the United States face the possibility of losing access to the app, which has become the focal point of a growing national security debate.

With the ban upheld by the Supreme Court and the Biden administration leaving, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is banking on Trump to save the app in the US.

Severing ties was what the social media platform needed to do in order to avoid the ban. The platform’s fate may be up to President-elect Donald Trump, who said he will likely grant TikTok a 90-day extension after his inauguration.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a new law that would lead to a ban of the social media platform TikTok, clearing the way for the widely popular app to shutter in the U.S. as soon as Sunday.

Justices reject the Chinese app’s First Amendment challenge to a federal law against “foreign adversary” control.

The U.S. Supreme Court officially upheld the law to ban the TikTok social media app on Friday.