In what’s being called a “landmark ruling,” the US Supreme Court cleared the way for a controversial TikTok ban to take effect this weekend. “Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary,
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley -- who said he believes the Supreme Court ruled correctly "on the law" with TikTok -- said the problem right now is that China is preventing its sale to a U.S. buyer. "I think somebody would buy it if China would sell it.
The United States Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that will force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban. However, the future of the platform is still unclear. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) praised the court's decision,
Conservative Republicans have been hyperfixated on TikTok content that’s sympathetic with Gaza — and accused the company of algorithmic bias against Israel.
NBC News received comments from Sens. Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Richard Blumenthal about the Supreme Court's ruling that the ban on Chinese-owned social media app TikTok can move forward this weekend.
Last year, the Biden Administration signed a law that the Chinese company ByteDance, who owns the social media platform TikTok, needs to sell the company in a few weeks. Nyaradzo "Naya" Bere, a Colorado TikTok influencer,
The US Supreme Court will decide tomorrow whether to ban TikTok in the US after hearing closing statements from parent company ByteDance. If the app can’t find a buyer, it will likely shut down
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he “most likely” would give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban.
Tech titans including the leaders of Meta, Amazon, Google, Tesla, TikTok, Apple, Alphabet, and OpenAI are set to attend the formal start of Trump's second term.
The human dancing videos and the cat dancing videos on TikTok have nothing on the dancing by politicians who voted for the law forcing its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either sell the popular and
U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.