US court rejects TikTok’s plea to delay impending ban

TikTok is racing against time to appeal to the US Supreme Court, following a US appeals court ruling that rejected its request for more time to challenge a law requiring its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app by January 19.

Earlier this week, TikTok and ByteDance filed an emergency motion with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, requesting additional time to present their case to the Supreme Court. Without legal intervention, the companies warned, the law would result in the app’s shutdown. “TikTok — one of the nation’s most popular speech platforms — risks being shut down for its more than 170 million domestic monthly users,” they cautioned in court documents, as reported by Reuters.