The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States on Sunday, siding with the government’s national security concerns over the First Amendment rights of the company and its 170 million TikTok users.
That decision shifts the focus to whether President-elect Donald Trump can intervene after he takes office on Monday.
Trump, who tried to ban TikTok during his first administration, has since promised to “save” the wildly popular platform, though it’s unclear how he could do so.
Minutes before the court released its decision, Trump said on social media he’d just spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping about TikTok and other issues.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/17/supreme-court-tiktok-ban/77694930007/
