TikTok's time crunch

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TikTok's future on the line

TikTok’s future in the U.S. is in serious jeopardy after a federal appeals court rejected its push to overturn a law that could ban the app next month.

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The popular social media app’s fate now rests in the hands of the Supreme Court and the incoming Trump administration, which has offered tepid support at-best for TikTok in the wake of the election.

“TikTok is in an increasingly desperate situation,” Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University, said in a statement.

“There’s a reason the law stipulated that the ban would take effect the day before the new administration is inaugurated and a new Congress begins,” she added. “No one wanted to relitigate this with a new set of political actors,........

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