The decision came a week after the justices heard a First Amendment challenge to a law aimed at the wildly popular short-form video platform used by 170 million Americans that the government fears could be influenced by China.

Donald Trump had asked the Supreme Court to delay TikTok’s ban-or-sale law to give him an opportunity to act once he returns to the White House.

In an unsigned opinion, the Court sided with the national security concerns about TikTok rather than the First Amendment rights. There were no noted dissents.

The ruling is expected to go down as among the most consequential court decisions of the digital media age.

That decision shifts the focus to whether President-elect Donald Trump can intervene after he takes office on Monday.

The Supreme Court upheld on Friday a law banning TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it, putting the popular short-video app on track to go dark in just two days.

Days ahead of the deadline, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company or face a shutdown in the United States.

The Supreme Court has refused to block a federal law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States as early as this weekend if the wildly popular

The Supreme Court upheld a federal law that President Joe Biden signed in April that will shut down TikTok on Jan. 19, 2025.

The Supreme Court upheld a law today that could ban the wildly popular social media app TikTok in the U.S. starting on Sunday, unless its Chinese owner agrees to sell it before then. The justices unanimously rejected TikTok’s First Amendment challenge and argued that Congress was entitled to effectively outlaw the app for national security reasons.

Tiktok's warning came hours after the US Supreme Court upheld the law banning the short-form video making platform over national security concerns.