Supreme Court Upholds Law That Threatens US TikTok Shutdown (3)

Jan. 17, 2025, 6:22 PM UTC

The Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law that threatens to shut down the wildly popular TikTok social media platform in the US as soon as Sunday, ruling that free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk.

The high court said Friday Congress’ “well-supported” concerns about Chinese data collection justified a law that singled out TikTok. The measure requires ByteDance Ltd. to sell the American version of the video-sharing app by Jan. 19 or face a ban.

“TikTok’s scale and susceptibility to foreign adversary control, together with the vast swaths of sensitive ...

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