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Supreme Court upholds federal TikTok divest-or-ban law
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the federal law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok or face an effective U.S. ban. The decision balanced free expression concerns against Congress’s national-security judgment about foreign control of a major communications platform.