The US government passed a law demanding the app's sale or ban because of what it says are its links to the Chinese state - links TikTok and its

TikTok asks for emergency pause to looming US ban

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2024-12-09 22:00:34

The US government passed a law demanding the app's sale or ban because of what it says are its links to the Chinese state - links TikTok and its parent company ByteDance deny.

The social media company lost its appeal against the law in a decision handed down on Friday - and said afterwards it would appeal to the Supreme Court.

TikTok and ByteDance have now submitted a legal request to temporarily block the law to give the Supreme Court more time to consider the matter.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has called for the request to be dismissed, saying its underlying arguments have already been "definitively rejected."

"The public interest favours providing sufficient time for the Supreme Court to conduct an orderly review process, and for the incoming Administration to evaluate this exceptionally important case," ByteDance and TikTok said in their emergency legal filing.

It would be "inflicting irreparable injury by silencing Petitioners and the 170 million Americans who use the platform each month," the filing added.