US Supreme Court is likely to uphold the TikTok ban, according to media reports.

It appears that the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court justices will support a law that would ban TikTok in the United States. The ban could take effect as early as January 19, 2025.

This was reported by RBK-Ukraine citing CNN, Axios, and Associated Press.

On Friday, January 10, the justices posed pointed questions to the app's attorneys and a group of its content creators, and also heard arguments regarding the law aimed at banning the social media platform. CNN notes that the justices viewed the ban, approved by Congress last year, not primarily as a matter concerning the First Amendment, but rather as an attempt to regulate potential foreign control over the app used by 170 million Americans.

As a result of the meeting, it seems that the majority of the justices will likely support the ban due to concerns over TikTok's ties to China. The law, which will restrict the operation of the social network in the U.S., is set to take effect on January 19 unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance agrees to sell the app or unless the Supreme Court decides to intervene and temporarily block the law itself.

Previously, members of the U.S. Congress stated that this law is necessary because ByteDance is controlled by the Chinese government, and the ability to collect vast amounts of personal information from American users poses a national security threat.

CNN reminds us that two U.S. presidents - Donald Trump and Joe Biden - have also previously expressed concerns about both content manipulation on the platform and its data collection methods. TikTok, however, claims that these concerns are speculative and rejects any suggestions that the Chinese government plays a role in the selection of videos featuring cats, recipes, and news that millions of Americans view on the app.

It is worth noting that in early December, the U.S. Federal Appeals Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok in the United States as soon as the following week. At that time, a panel of three judges from the D.C. Circuit Court unanimously sided with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Earlier, RBK-Ukraine reported that in the same December, the government of Albania decided to ban TikTok in the country for at least one year.