TikTok’s future in the United States remains up in the air. The platform asked a federal appeals court Monday, Dec. 9, to stop the Biden administration from enforcing a law that could lead to a ban in the coming weeks.
The company filed an emergency motion on Friday, Dec. 6, asking for an injunction that would pause a court of appeals ruling, which upheld the law requiring TikTok to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be banned from the U.S.
TikTok argues the Supreme Court should hear the case before the law takes effect.
The pause also gives the incoming Trump administration time to weigh in. President-elect Donald Trump pledged to stop the TikTok ban during his 2024 campaign and even joined the app in June.
If the law isn’t overturned, both TikTok and ByteDance said the app will be shut down by Jan. 19.
TikTok currently has more than 170 million American users, meaning the company would lose about a third of its daily users.
Attorneys for the two companies are asking the appeals court to decide on the request for an enforcement pause by Dec. 16.
