The US Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the bipartisan law signed in April that required Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd. to sell the wildly popular video app and required tech companies that host or distribute TikTok in the US – such as Apple Inc., Google and Oracle Corp. – to stop doing so on Jan. 19. The law was designed to address national security concerns.
TikTok started restoring service in the US on Sunday, after a whipsaw of events that saw the video app make good on a threat to go dark, only to have President-elect Donald Trump halt enforcement of the law and announce he would give its owners another three months to find a buyer.
“We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive,” the video platform said in a post on X.
