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Supreme Court to hear challenge on TikTok ban law

byAdam West
December 18, 2024



The Supreme Court will take up a challenge to a new law that could ban the popular social media app TikTok in the US, according to a brief order issued Wednesday.

The Justice Department and lawyers for TikTok and ByteDance, its China-based parent company, should be prepared to argue whether the ban passed by Congress violates the First Amendment, the Supreme Court said in the brief order.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the law that could ban TikTok. AFP via Getty Images
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the platform’s consumer privacy and data security practices and impact on children, Thursday, March 23, 2023. AP
Tiffany Cianci, the host of “TikTok Townhall,” livestreams outside the E. Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse as the US Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in the case TikTok Inc. v. Merrick Garland on September 16, 2024. Getty Images
TikTok supporters listen during a news conference in front of the US Capitol on March 22, 2023. Getty Images

Arguments will be heard by the high court on Jan. 10, just days before the ban would take effect on Jan. 19.



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