Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready to welcome TikTok users, as the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app from the United States.
The US supreme court ruled on Friday to uphold a nationwide ban of the video-sharing platform, which is set to take effect from Sunday. Now, brands and creators are scrambling to adapt their campaign strategies.
The Supreme Court appeared ready to uphold a law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owners don't sell the widly popular platform.
TikTok to be banned for 170 million U.S. users, disrupting campaigns and forcing brands to pivot organic and paid strategies.
TikTok's lawyer danced around the question but said there is no precedent for a foreign government being subject to U.S. free speech laws. He then used a series of analogies, and it didn't seem like the Supreme Court judges were impressed by his answer.
After years on the brink, TikTok’s clock has run out as the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld a lower court ruling that the app owned by China’s ByteDance must sell itself or be banned in the U.S. on Jan.
The Supreme Court has upheld a federal ban of TikTok, and users are scrambling. The ban, which is expected to take effect on January 19, is a looming crisis for the countless small businesses and creators who’ve built their livelihoods on the platform.
TikTok’s time appears to be up for its 170 million American users. The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a federal law requiring the app's parent company, ByteDance, to sell it to a non-Chinese company by Sunday or face a shutdown.
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 on Friday upheld Congress’s ban on TikTok, marking the end of the popular video-sharing platform’s presence in the United States.
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.