TikTok will “go dark” after January 19 unless the Supreme Court intervenes to stop a law to force its Chinese parent to sell or face a ban on U.S.
platforms. “At least as I understand it, we go dark, the platform shuts down,” Noel Francisco, TikTok’s attorney, told Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
In a bipartisan vote, Congress last year passed the law, signed by President Joe Biden, out of national security concerns that the Chinese government ultimately would be able to access TikTok user data and manipulate content for U.S.
audiences. A federal appeals court last month upheld the law, determining that the national security concerns were enough to survive the strict scrutiny of the impact that the TikTok measure would have on First Amendment rights.
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