Federal legislation requires TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell the platform by Jan. 19, or the app will be banned in the U.S.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied TikTok’s petition to overturn the law — which requires TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance or be banned by mid-January — and rebuffed the company’s challenge of the statute, which it argued had ran afoul of the First Amendment.

A federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok as soon as next month, handing a resounding defeat to the

Popular social network TikTok did not receive a reprieve from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and it is still

ByteDance has until Jan. 19, 2025, when the bill is set to go into effect, to divest TikTok and sell the social media app.

A federal appeals court in Washington upheld a law Friday that could result in social media giant TikTok’s eventual ban in the United States, pointing to the national security concerns of Congress.

Days after its claims were rejected by a U.S. federal appeals court, TikTok is asking for a pause on a new law set to take place next month that would ban the social media app unless sold by its parent company.

TikTok asked that a US law forcing a sale or ban of the app by China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. be put on hold to give the US Supreme Court a chance to review.