TikTok has lost an emergency bid to temporarily halt a fast-approaching deadline under a US “divest or ban” law, leaving the fate of the popular video app owned by China’s ByteDance in the country ever more uncertain.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday rejected the emergency motion filed by the platform and its Chinese parent company at the start of the week, requesting the law be stayed from taking effect next month while it asks the Supreme Court to take up a challenge.
The law, signed by President Joe Biden earlier this year, orders TikTok to be banned in the country if the app fails to divest from its parent by January 19 2025 — the day before Donald Trump is inaugurated as the new president.
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