Supreme Court appears inclined to uphold TikTok ban in US

Cătălin Roșioru

WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court seemed inclined on Friday (Jan 10) to uphold a law that would force a sale or ban the popular short-video app TikTok in the United States by Jan 19, with the justices focusing on the national security concerns about China that prompted the crackdown. During about two-and-a-half hours of arguments, the nine justices pressed lawyers representing TikTok, its Chinese parent company ByteDance and app users about the risk of China's government exploiting the platform to