Supreme Court seems likely to uphold federal law that could shut down TikTok in U.S.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company. Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company’s connections to China overrides concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States. Advertisement Advertisement Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours,...