The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear TikTok’s challenge to a law that could ban the platform in the United States.
The justices are set to hear oral arguments on January 10, according to the order.
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act forces TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to divest from the platform or face a ban on Jan. 19. (RELATED: Judges Rule Against TikTok Citing ‘Grave Threat To National Security’)
“The Act will shutter one of America’s most popular speech platforms the day before a presidential inauguration,” the platform argued in its emergency application Monday. “This, in turn, will silence the speech of Applicants and the many Americans who use the platform to communicate about politics, commerce, arts, and other matters of public concern.”
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