TikTok CEO Shou Chew on Friday responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the law requiring the app to sell its U.S.-based operations to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the U.S. The law will prohibit app stores like Apple’s App Store and Google Play,

That decision shifts the focus to whether President-elect Donald Trump can intervene after he takes office on Monday.

The decision came a week after the justices heard a First Amendment challenge to a law aimed at the wildly popular short-form video platform used by 170 million Americans that the government fears could be influenced by China.

The Supreme Court rejected TikTok's appeal to halt a law banning the app in the U.S. unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake by Jan. 19.

The court held that the risk to national security posed by the app's ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech.

The Supreme Court justices were unanimous in upholding the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent

The Supreme Court upheld a US law that bans TikTok on Jan. 19 unless it is sold to an owner not controlled by a foreign adversary, a ruling that creates new uncertainty for a social-media app used by 170 million Americans.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.

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

Justice Brett Kavanaugh brought up past examples of the U.S. blocking broadcasting companies from having ties to foreign governments and brought up the government’s concerns about TikTok collecting data on U.S. users, which he said “seems like a huge concern for the future of the country.”

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from the app, teeing up a ban set to take effect on Sunday. The justices sided with the Biden