The Supreme Court will take up a challenge to a new law that could ban the popular social media app TikTok in the US, according to a brief order issued Wednesday.
The Justice Department and lawyers for TikTok and ByteDance, its China-based parent company, should be prepared to argue whether the ban passed by Congress violates the First Amendment, the Supreme Court said in the brief order.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on the platform’s consumer privacy and data security practices and impact on children, Thursday, March 23, 2023. AP
Tiffany Cianci, the host of “TikTok Townhall” livestreams outside the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Court House as the U.S. Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in the case TikTok Inc. v. Merrick Garland on September 16, 2024. Getty Images
