The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday morning upheld the law banning TikTok that is set to go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19. TikTok, which has 170 million monthly American users, had argued the ban tramples on the First Amendment rights of both the app and its users — an argument that the court ultimately shot down.
“We conclude that the challenged provisions do not violate the petitioners’ First Amendment rights,” the court said in its unsigned, unanimous opinion.
President Joe Biden signed the law banning TikTok from the U.S. last April, unless the app’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, sold its American business.