TikTok and its parent company, China-based ByteDance, asked the U.S. Supreme Court in December to pause the mid-January deadline imposed by U.S. lawmakers last April that forces ByteDance to sell TikTok or face being banned in the U.S.
The hearing on Friday, January 10 lasted for more than two hours. But the Supreme Court still hasn’t ruled on whether to uphold the ban, which is set to go into effect on January 19. Reports note that TikTok is preparing to “go dark” on Sunday.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted during the proceedings, “The law doesn’t say TikTok has to shut down. It says ByteDance has to divest.”
ByteDance has previously said
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