TikTok Urges Court To Halt Ban From Taking Effect Until Supreme Court Can Review Case

Without emergency relief, the popular social media app will be banned ‘on the eve of a presidential inauguration,’ a legal filing notes.

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In a survey, 47 percent of Gen Zers say they wish TikTok didn't exist, while 50 percent feel the same about X, formerly known as Twitter. AP/Kiichiro Sato

After a federal appeals court held that a law that would force TikTok to divest from its Communist Chinese ownership or face a nationwide ban is constitutional, the popular video-sharing app is urging the court to halt the law from taking effect until the Supreme Court has a chance to weigh in.

The District of Columbia Circuit on Friday found that the divest-or-ban law does not infringe on First Amendment freedoms since the government’s law acts solely “to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.”

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