NEW YORK/PALO ALTO, U.S. — A U.S. court on Friday threw out TikTok’s challenge to the government’s sell-or-ban order just over a month before the deadline for compliance, potentially leaving the platform’s future in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump.
U.S. federal appeals court Judges Sri Srinivasan, Neomi Rao and Douglas Ginsburg denied legal challenges brought by TikTok and users against a law that forces the Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either divest its stake in the social media app or have its U.S. operations banned in the country, with a deadline of Jan. 19.
