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 has unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law passed in Congress that bans TikTok, which could lead to 3.7 million users in Michigan losing the use of the app as soon as Sunday. The court's decision shifts focus to President-elect Donald Trump, who still can intervene after he is sworn into office on Monday.
TikTok, ByteDance and several users of the app sued to halt the ban, arguing it would suppress free speech for the millions of Americans who use the platform.
By the end of 2024, TikTok has generated approximately $8 billion in ad revenue in the U.S. As revealed by Omdia's Senior Research Director María Rua Aguete at a Content Americas panel, it surpassed 1.
Experts have said the app will not disappear from existing users’ phones once the law takes effect Sunday, but TikTok said it would shut down the platform in the United States by the deadline.
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.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on the fate of TikTok on Friday. See who will be rendering a decision and which one is from the state of Georgia. The U.S. Supreme Court is made up of nine justices. Meaning there is one Chief Justice and eight ...
The case against an Island man accused of using the social media app TikTok to lure underage girls and commit sexual offences against them will have his case heard in front of a judge alone.
TikTok went from banned to back online in a day, but the experience isn't what it used to be. Here's how to troubleshoot TikTok for Apple and Android.
In the days approaching January 19, 2025, millions of TikTok content creators and consumers prepared to say their final goodbyes to the app. After a TikTok ban was passed in Congress, requiring the app either to be sold to an American company on an impossible timeline or to go dark,