TikTok Says It’s Planning To Shut Down By Jan. 19 In The U.S. [Video]

TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the U.S. by Jan. 19 unless the Supreme Court intervenes to stop the ban.

The law is set to take effect in a few days, nine months after it swiftly passed Congress with bipartisan support and was signed into law by President Biden. It requires the widely popular app to cut ties with its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or lose access to app stores and web-hosting services in the U.S. The law also allows the president to grant a 90-day delay in its implementation if a sale is in progress.

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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday, Jan. 10. The justices also have before them a plea from President-elect Donald Trump, who has dropped his earlier support for a ban, to give him and his new …