TikTok’s time will expire on Jan. 19 if no buyer is found or the Supreme Court rules in the app’s favor. Here’s what to know.
Following the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold by Sunday, rumors of prospective buyers for the popular social media platform continue to float online.
MrBeast is part of a growing list of individuals and businesses that have expressed interesting in purchasing TikTok.
The platform is in need of saving in the United States, where approximately 170 million people have TikTok accounts. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that will ban the platform on Jan. 19 unless TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance divests its U.S. operations.
In a bipartisan bill passed last year, congress expressed concern over TikTok parent company ByteDance’s ties to the Chinese government. Technically, the Beijing-based company is subject to oversight by the Chinese Communist Party,
The Supreme Court has decided to uphold the law that will ban TikTok on Jan. 19 if its parent company ByteDance continues to refuse to sell the app before then.
Reports suggest Chinese officials are considering selling part of TikTok to Elon Musk to keep the platform operational in the U.S.
TikTok is set to be banned in the US on 19 January after the Supreme Court denied a last ditch legal bid from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. It found the law banning the social media platform did not violate the first amendment rights of TikTok and its 170 million users, as the companies argued.
In an unsigned opinion, the Court sided with the national security concerns about TikTok over First Amendment rights. There were no noted dissents.
The Supreme Court announces its final decision regarding the impending TikTok ban mere days before the proposed ban would take effect.
President-elect Donald Trump says that he will "most likely" give TikTok an extension of 90 days to avoid it being banned in the United States. Trump spoke to NBC News about his potential solution for the ban that's set to happen on Sunday since the China-based social media app couldn't find a non-Chinese buyer.