TikTok Ban Uncertainty Continues: Supreme Court Requested for Emergency Injunction; Trump Meeting Sparks Speculation
The TikTok ban saga continues as ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has applied for an emergency injunction from the US Supreme Court. This follows an appeals court rejecting ByteDance's argument that their First Amendment rights would be violated by a ban on the app. The application suggests that even a temporary ban could see TikTok lose around one-third of its users in the US market. The case centres around a law passed earlier this year which requires TikTok to either be sold to an American company or face a US ban.