Appeals Court Upholds TikTok Ban, Giving Social Media Platform Six Weeks To Sever Ties With CCP-Controlled Parent Company

A federal appeals court denied TikTok’s request to overturn an April law requiring the social media platform to sever ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban in the United States.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday TikTok must divest from CCP-controlled ByteDance by Jan. 19 or the popular social media app will lose access to app stores and web-hosting services in the United States.