The US Supreme Court heard arguments Friday about whether or not to uphold a law that effectively bans the social media app TikTok. The law was signed last year and calls for the app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance by Sunday, and the app could be shut down in the US if the law is upheld.

This decision stems from national security concerns over TikTok being owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company, which might be required to share American user data with the Chinese g

The Supreme Court heard arguments for two-and-a-half hours on Friday over whether TikTok can be banned in the United States in less than one week. By the end, the justices appeared ready to allow the U.S. government to force TikTok's Chinese parent company to sell the company or go dark.

TikTok faces an imminent shutdown in the United States after Congress passed a law last year forcing its Chinses owner ByteDance to either sell the platform or close it by

The looming TikTok ban could force 170 million Americans to find new ways to create and consume short-form video content.