TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew thanked Donald Trump for his commitment to "finding a solution" that keeps TikTok available in the U.S. after the ruling.

In an unanimous ruling handed down on Friday morning, January 17 in TikTok v. Merrick B. Garland, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a TikTok ban that is scheduled to go into effect on Sunday, January 19 unless ByteDance — the video sharing platform's owner in Mainland China — divests itself.

Noel Francisco, representing TikTok and ByteDance, argued that Supreme Court endorsement of this law could enable statutes targeting other companies on similar grounds. "AMC movie theaters used ...

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of the Chinese-owned platform’s First Amendment claim.

Noel Francisco, will argue on behalf of TikTok and ByteDance. Stanford Law professor Jeffrey Fisher, representing content creators and users, will be making his 50th high court argument.

The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal against a law that bans the video-sharing app in the country unless it is sold.

TikTok's lawyer danced around the question but said there is no precedent for a foreign government being subject to U.S. free speech laws. He then used a series of analogies, and it didn't seem like the Supreme Court judges were impressed by his answer.

"We go dark. Essentially, the platform shuts down," TikTok lawyer Noel Francisco told the Supreme Court last week. The company also plans to give users an option to download all their data so that ...

The Chinese-owned social media company could shut down its U.S. subsidiary Jan. 19 if the high court upholds the law.

Chief Justice John Roberts convened the court for arguments in TikTok's challenge. Noel Francisco, who is arguing on behalf of the platform, will present TikTok's case first. He has two minutes to ...

ByteDance has said it won’t sell the short-form video platform and TikTok’s attorney Noel Francisco says a sale might never be possible under the conditions set in the law. Francisco urged the justices to enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok ...

There are the TikTok creators who fear losing their audiences and have been frantically trying to persuade their fans to follow them on Instagram and YouTube, and the e-commerce brands and drop-shippers that are going to have to find other places to sell their stuff.