Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of a federal law that bans the distribution of TikTok in the United States unless and until it is sold to a new owner. The Court upheld the law after applying a remarkably deferential version of the intermediate scrutiny standard that courts apply in First Amendment cases to content-neutral regulations of speech.

Today, the United States Supreme Court announced its ruling to uphold the TikTok ban ... most notably Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook and Instagram. Yet shares in Meta (Nasdaq: META) and Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP), parent company of Snapchat, have dropped ...

Experts have said the app will not disappear from existing users’ phones once the law takes effect Sunday, but TikTok said it would shut down the platform in the United States by the deadline.

The morning of Jan. 17, the Supreme Court of the United States gathered to vote on a decision to ban TikTok — owned by ByteDance — in the U.S., unanimously