TikTok ban upheld by U.S. Supreme Court

Law to take effect Sunday; Biden administration says Trump to be handed implementation

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TikTok has more than 170 million users in the U.S. -- roughly equivalent to half of the country's population. (Source photos by Nikkei)

PAK YIU and KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei staff writers

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a federal law that would in effect ban the TikTok short-video app here unless Chinese parent ByteDance divests before Sunday.

The nine justices on the conservative-majority court ruled that the law, which passed Congress last year by overwhelming bipartisan margins, does not violate the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protection of free speech.

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