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The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner,
ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.

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More than 170 million Americans use TikTok.Credit...Ore Huiying for The New York
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By Sapna Maheshwari

Dec. 6, 2024

TikTok is one step closer to disappearing in the United States after a panel of
federal judges on Friday unanimously upheld a new law that could lead to the
banning of the popular Chinese-owned video app by mid-January.

The three judges, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit, denied TikTok’s petition to overturn the law. The decision could be a
death blow for the app in one of its biggest markets. More than 170 million
Americans use TikTok to entertain and inform themselves, turning it into a
cultural phenomenon. The looming loss of the app in the United States had
spurred concern from free speech advocates and from the creators whose income
depends on TikTok.

The decision also raises new questions for President-elect Donald J. Trump, who
has repeatedly signaled his support for the app, but who doesn’t have a clear
path for rescuing it under the new law, which is scheduled to go into effect the
day before his inauguration.



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The law, signed in April, requires TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell
the app to a non-Chinese company by Jan. 19 or face a ban in the United States.
TikTok, which has raised national security concerns among politicians since 2020
because of its ties to China, has said a sale is impossible, in part because it
would be blocked by the Chinese government. The company argued that the law
unfairly singled out TikTok and that a ban would infringe on the First Amendment
rights of American users.


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Representative Mike Gallagher co-sponsored the law that will now force TikTok to
cut ties with its Chinese parent company or risk being banned in U.S. app
stores.Credit...Kent Nishimura for The New York Times

The judges disagreed with TikTok’s argument. They said the law was “carefully
crafted to deal with only control by a foreign adversary,” and didn’t run afoul
of the First Amendment. “The government acted solely to protect that freedom
from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather
data on people in the United States,” the judges wrote on Friday.

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Sapna Maheshwari reports on TikTok, technology and emerging media companies. She
has been a business reporter for more than a decade. Contact her at
sapna@nytimes.com. More about Sapna Maheshwari

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 7, 2024, Section A, Page 1 of
the New York edition with the headline: TikTok Faces Ban After U.S. Judges
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