TikTok's parent company is asking the Supreme Court to halt a law that would require the company to sell TikTok to a U.S. firm or face a ban.

The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app’s fate in their hands. The popular social media platform says the law violates the First Amendment and should be struck down.

By Andrew Chung, John Kruzel and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Friday over the legality of a statute that would ban or force the sale of TikTok by Jan.

Lawyers for TikTok will argue that banning the app will violate the free speech of 170 million American users. The Justice Department will contend that the app is a national security risk.

In a collision between free speech and national security, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the fate of TikTok, a digital age cultural phenomenon that roughly half the U.S. population uses fo

Trump asked the Supreme Court to block or pause the new law but he didn’t provide details on how he would “resolve the issues at hand through political means.

Listen to live coverage as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in TikTok's appeal to block enforcement of a federal law that would require the app to shut down in the United States. TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media platform in the U.

A US law requires TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the social media company to an American firm or face a ban.