TikTok's attorney's on Friday reiterated the popular app will shut down, rather than make a last-minute deal to keep it ...

The Supreme Court appears inclined to uphold a law that would ban the video-sharing app TikTok in the U.S. after Jan. 19 unless its China-owned parent company divests.

“The government’s real target, rather, is the speech itself,” said attorney Noel Francisco ... Thomas first asked Francisco. “You’re converting the restriction on ByteDance’s ownership ...

Editor's Note: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday, Jan. 20 to keep TikTok operating for 75 days. Trump’s order instructs the U.S. attorney general not to take any action to ...

The story continues as originally published below. ByteDance has said it won’t sell the short-form video platform, and TikTok’s attorney Noel Francisco stated a sale might never be possible under the ...

The case made its way to the Supreme Court this week. In oral arguments on Friday, Noel Francisco, a lawyer representing TikTok and ByteDance, said supporting the law could allow the US government ...

Noel Francisco, who is arguing on behalf of the ... asking why a restriction on ByteDance, which is headquartered in Beijing, is a restriction on TikTok. "You're converting the restriction on ...

That is something that ByteDance wants to speak, right?” Noel Francisco, a TikTok lawyer, said it was ultimately TikTok's choice whether to put content on the platform and he denied that TikTok ...

During the hearing, Supreme Court justices pressed TikTok and ByteDance lawyer Noel Francisco for not separating from ByteDance to avoid the ban. Related: Target "haul" gets viral TikTok ...