Can the Supreme Court Save TikTok?

After January 19, TikTok in the United States might be unalived. Last April, President Biden signed the app’s removal into law if its parent company that’s based in China, ByteDance, doesn’t sell its shares of TikTok. If nothing changes in less than two weeks, TikTok cannot be updated nor redownloaded in the App Store—time to preemptively save all those one-pot dinner recipes in your liked folder. Like the meal ideas, not all is lost yet— TikTok will be presenting its case to the Supreme Court on January 10, and you can watch it live. You can’t send any gifts through the screen, though.

January 9, 2025: While TikTok live battles are still a confusing mystery to me (why are people doing that weird tapping motion), the app is essentially battling against the ban with the Supreme Court on Friday, January 10 at 10 a.m. EST and the public portion is available to watch on a live stream. TikTok will present its oral arguments to the judges as to why the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” is unconstitutional against the First Amendment. If the Supreme Court decides to officially hear the case out, the ban will be on pause until a decision is made. If they decide to leave it to the appeals court, it would be officially banned.