TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 6, 2024

A federal appeals court today upheld a law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the app or face a U.S. ban. According to The Hill, a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that the law does not violate the First Amendment, as TikTok has argued. At the time it was passed, the law gave ByteDance about nine months to divest TikTok or face a ban on U.S. networks and app stores. President Joe Biden could also opt to give the company a 90-day extension. TikTok is expected to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, the paper reports.