Photo Credit: TikTok (Culver City Office)
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether or not to uphold the TikTok ban looming on January 19. TikTok has told its LA staff impacted by wild fires to keep working from home or take sick days as it preps for ban.
TikTok says it could shut down the social media site in the United States on January 19 unless the Supreme Court takes action tomorrow (January 10). “Absent such relief, that would shut down TikTok—one of the nation’s most popular speech platforms—for its more than 170 million domestic monthly users on the eve of a presidential inauguration,” reads a TikTok legal filing.
President-elect Trump also sent a plea to the Supreme Court to stay the TikTok ban until after his inauguration due to “foreign policy concerns.” Trump has the authority to issue a 90-day delay of the law after January 19, though Congress would have to certify that ‘evidence of significant progress’ toward ByteDance divesting from TikTok would have to take place…