TikTok filed an emergency motion Monday seeking to halt an impending Jan. 19, 2025, deadline for the social media giant to divest itself from Chinese parent company ByteDance to allow the Supreme Court to hear its appeal.
“TikTok is, at its core, its 170 million American users,” TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes said in an emailed statement. “Estimates show that small businesses on TikTok would lose more than $1 billion in revenue and creators would suffer almost $300 million in lost earnings in just one month unless the TikTok ban is halted.”
The filing comes hot on the heels of a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel decision Friday to uphold the bipartisan Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act as constitutional.
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