The Supreme Court backs TikTok's ban. What comes next?

Today, the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) unanimously voted to uphold a law banning TikTok in the US.

The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), a bill signed into law in April 2024, is behind the app's banishment from the US. As a result, TikTok and the US Justice Department argued their cases before the Court.

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TikTok argued that banning the app under PAFACA violates the US Constitution, specifically the First Amendment, while the Justice Department argued that the app poses a national security threat.

The US government claims TikTok poses a national security threat mainly because TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is based in China. Over the years, the US asserted that the Chinese government may have access to US citizens' TikTok user data or influence ByteDance to ...