The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case involving the Chinese company ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, a popular social media platform. ByteDance requested an emergency review by the Supreme Court to block a law that would ban TikTok.
As our colleague at sister site Townhall.com, Jeff Charles, wrote earlier:
The Court has scheduled two hours for oral arguments on January 10, 2025, just nine days before the ban is supposed to take effect on January 19, 2025.
TikTok has been seeking out other avenues to stop the implementation of the law and has been unsuccessful up until now.
President-elect Donald Trump recently had a meeting with the CEO of TikTok. Trump praised TikTok for its support during the presidential election, expressing his fondness for the platform and acknowledging its role in his victory.
President-elect Trump on TikTok ban: “We’ll take a look at TikTok. I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points.” pic.twitter.com/NNN0edUAqe
— CSPAN (@cspan) December 16, 2024
The move by SCOTUS comes after the law’s passing and being signed into law by President Joe Biden in April, then an appeals court ruled in early December that the social media platform would either need to find a non-Chinese owner within six weeks or end operations.
