The three judges, in the U.S. Court of Appeals, denied TikTok's petition to overturn a law that could lead to the app's ban in the U.S.
More than 170 million Americans use TikTok to entertain and inform themselves, turning it into a cultural phenomenon and raising concerns among free speech advocates.
The law requires TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to a non-Chinese company by Jan. 19 or face a ban in the U.S.
The judges disagreed with TikTok's argument, stating the law was crafted specifically to address control by a foreign adversary without infringing on First Amendment rights.
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