TikTok ban set to go into effect on Sunday as Supreme Court upholds law

Friday, 17 January 2025 (13 hours ago)
TikTok’s last-ditch effort to avoid its impending ban in the United States has failed. On Friday, the US Supreme Court unanimously upheld the law that forces ByteDance to sell TikTok or else face a ban in the United States.

Perhaps the largest unknown right now is how the impending transition from the Biden administration to the Trump administration will impact the ban.

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*Updated January 17, 2025 at 10:51 am ET with new statement from the Biden administration and Trump below*.

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The Supreme Court upheld the law banning the popular social media app today -- noting the law is constitutional, so the ban is set to begin Sunday, the day before Trump's inauguration.

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