When the Supreme Court upheld a law that banned TikTok from the US, it seemed well aware that its ruling could resonate far beyond one app. The justices delivered an unsigned opinion with a quote from Justice Felix Frankfurter from 1944: “in considering the application of established legal rules to the ‘totally new problems’ raised by the airplane and radio,
The Supreme Court unanimously found the new law that could lead to a ban of TikTok does not violate the First Amendment rights of the platform or its users.
The Supreme Court’s remarkably speedy decision Friday to allow a controversial ban on TikTok to take hold will have a dramatic impact on the tens of millions of Americans who visit the app every ...
The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.
With the court signaling it will release a decision on Friday, lobbyists for the app pushed lawmakers to shift course.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a law requiring TikTok’s parent company to divest from the popular video-sharing platform or face a ban was constitutional, siding with the government in a
Justices brushed aside arguments that shutting down the platform prevents 170 million users from expressing themselves and exchanging ideas, writes Roy S. Gutterman of Syracuse University's Newhouse School.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew on Friday thanked President-elect Donald Trump for supporting the company's efforts to remain available to U.S. users. In a video posted to TikTok, his first public statement since the Supreme Court upheld a law banning the app just hours earlier, Chew praised Trump's recent support.
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court's current term includes cases involving guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, online pornography, religious rights, TikTok, preventive healthcare, Planned Parenthood funding,
The latest turn in the ongoing saga over TikTok in the United States has brought the balance of power among the three branches of government into the spotlight.
It’s becoming less clear by the day who is supposed to be buying TikTok. One of Donald Trump's first acts on his return as US president was to delay a ban on the Chinese-owned app, in order to find