With the Supreme Court set to hear arguments in TikTok v. Garland on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump recently asked the court to give him the opportunity to decide whether TikTok, the social media platform responsible for undermining the mental health of millions of impressionable children through its targeted algorithms, should be banned in the U.S. or divested from Chinese ownership.
The reasons to ban TikTok are plentiful, which is why overwhelming bipartisan majorities passed legislation last year to force owner ByteDance’s divestiture from the app or face a ban in the U.S. by Jan. 19. There are obvious national security risks to keeping TikTok around, which are outlined in a recent Advancing American Freedom amicus brief urging the court to uphold the ban. But perhaps even more sinister are TikTok’s harmful effects on children’s well-being.
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