Summary

A federal appeals court upheld a law requiring TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S. company by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban.

TikTok plans to appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing the order violates First Amendment rights and lacks evidence of harm.

The ruling stems from bipartisan national security concerns over data privacy and foreign influence, but civil liberties groups condemned it as censorship.

If upheld, the ban would affect millions of U.S. users who rely on TikTok for communication, business, and expression.