Democratic Senator Ed Markey and Republican Senator Rand Paul have called on President Joe Biden to extend by 90 days the January 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. assets or face a ban. The request comes as the Supreme Court ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied TikTok's petition for the Supreme Court to review the ban legislation.
Two Senators, a Republican and a Democrat, would like the president to push the deadline back, citing free speech concerns.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to hear legal arguments over a law that may lead to a ban of the popular social media platform TikTok.
President Joe Biden signed into law the bill that requires TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the company by Jan. 19 or be banned in the country.
As president, Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by the courts. He has since changed his position.
LEANNE CHAVEZ LOOKS INTO WHEN A BAN COULD HAPPEN. LEAH. YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. THAT LEGAL DECISION TODAY COMING FROM AN APPEALS COURT PANEL MADE UP OF APPOINTED JUDGES, TWO REPUBLICANS AND ONE DEMOCRAT AFTER HEARING ORAL ARGUMENTS ON THIS CASE IN SEPTEMBER.
Donald Trump accused TikTok, without proof, of siphoning off American users' data to benefit Beijing and of censoring posts to please Chinese officials.
These are among the developments that TikTok users should prepare for if the app is actually banned in the U.S. on Jan. 19. TikTok’s leaders are working to avoid that fate in multiple ways. They’ve asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the ban and discussed TikTok’s future with President-elect Donald Trump.
A US ban on the video-sharing app TikTok is set to take effect in early 2025 – but the country's Supreme Court and President-elect Donald Trump could still change that
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Ed Markey and Republican Senator Rand Paul on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to extend by 90 days a Jan. 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to sell the U.S. assets of its short-video app TikTok or face a ban.