If Trump signs an executive order overturning the TikTok ban, it would give the app “more leeway” to find a buyer as it works its way through the courts, one legal expert tells TheWrap The post TikTok in Limbo: What Happens to Creators – and Can Trump Save Them?

Many Austin-based influencers make the majority of their income from TikTok. Read about eight who wonder what happens next if the app is banned.

The Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok, requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to American owners or shut it down by Sunday.

A third of U.S. adults say they use TikTok, including 59% of adults under 30 who use the app. And about half of U.S. adult TikTok users (52%) say they regularly get news there; that works out to 17% of all U.

The court unanimously ruled that the law does not violate free speech rights and that the US government had demonstrated legitimate national security concerns about a Chinese company owning the app.

First lady Jill Biden expressed her disappointment with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new interview with The Washington Post, providing rare public comments about the fractured relationship between her husband, Joe Biden, and Pelosi following the president’s departure from the 2024 race.

TikTok arrived in the U.S. almost 6 1/2 years ago. The possibility the U.S. would outlaw the video-sharing app has kept influencers and users in anxious limbo for more than four of the years since then.

The US Supreme Court ruled to uphold the law banning TikTok in the US unless the company sells to a non-adversary by January 19. If TikTok does not sell its ownership, the app's revenue and 170 million users could be consequential,

The outcome will affect many across the nation, including local influencers in Mississippi: Taylor Burns and Jessie Whittington. Burns is a fashion and lifestyle TikToker who goes by "Queen Tay" while Whittington makes specialty soap bars for her booming business Country Lather Soaps.

President-elect Donald Trump announced his Jan. 20 inauguration will be moved indoors as Washington braces for what are expected to be frigid temperatures. The U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 17 upheld a federal law that would require social media giant TikTok to shut down in the U.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a controversial ban on TikTok may take effect this weekend, rejecting an appeal from the popular app’s owners that claimed the ban violated the First Amendment.