Appeals court rejects TikTok’s request to temporarily halt pending US ban

By Reuters 14 December 2024, 2:59 am

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A TikTok sign is displayed on top of their building in Culver City, California, on December 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

WASHINGTON — A US appeals court rejects an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would require its Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the short-video app by January 19 or face a ban.

TikTok and ByteDance filed the emergency motion with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, asking for more time to make its case to the US Supreme Court.

The companies warned that without court action the law will “shut down TikTok — one of the nation’s most popular speech platforms — for its more than 170 million domestic monthly users.”