The popular social media platform TikTok in the United States is days away from shutting down after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed the federal law forcing a nationwide ban to take effect.
However, there remain questions over whether it could still be reversed.
The uncertainty over the app’s future may have ripple effects in Canada, experts say, although Ottawa says what happens in the U.S. won’t impact its own moves to curtail TikTok’s business.
The Supreme Court’s ruling upholds a law passed in April that sets a Sunday deadline for TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance to sell the social media app or face a ban. TikTok’s U.S. operations are also set to wind down in light of the ban.
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser Mike Waltz told Fox News on Thursday the new administration, which takes office Monday, will keep TikTok alive in the U.S. if there is a viable deal, though …