US courtroom rejects TikTok request to quickly shut down pending US ban By Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals courtroom on Friday rejected an emergency bid by TikTok to quickly block a legislation that might power its Chinese language father or mother ByteDance to divest the short-video app by Jan. 19 or face prohibition.

TikTok and ByteDance filed an emergency movement with the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday, asking for extra time to make their arguments earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket.

The businesses warned that with out authorized motion, the legislation would “shut down TikTok – one of many nation’s hottest voice platforms – for its greater than 170 million home month-to-month customers.”