When the Supreme Court upheld a law that banned TikTok from the US, it seemed well aware that its ruling could resonate far beyond one app. The justices delivered an unsigned opinion with a quote from Justice Felix Frankfurter from 1944: “in considering the application of established legal rules to the ‘totally new problems’ raised by the airplane and radio,

The Supreme Court has officially announced their ruling in regard to TikTok: They are upholding the law that effectively bans TikTok in the United States this weekend. Here's what the ruling means for the future of TikTok;

The Supreme Court unanimously found the new law that could lead to a ban of TikTok does not violate the First Amendment rights of the platform or its users.

TikTok, ByteDance and several users of the app sued to halt the ban, arguing it would suppress free speech for the millions of Americans who use the platform.

The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s ...

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.

With the court signaling it will release a decision on Friday, lobbyists for the app pushed lawmakers to shift course.

Just like TikTok itself, as soon as you swipe past one bit of news another comes along. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law that would ban the wildly popular social media platform in the United States on Sunday if the parent company ...

Justices brushed aside arguments that shutting down the platform prevents 170 million users from expressing themselves and exchanging ideas, writes Roy S. Gutterman of Syracuse University's Newhouse School.

With the ban upheld by the Supreme Court and the Biden administration leaving, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is banking on Trump to save the app in the US.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, in a video message posted to the platform after the Supreme Court ruling upholding the U.S. law that threatens to ban the app, thanked President-elect Trump for his support in trying to find a workable outcome to keep the app legal.