The Supreme Court seemed to lean Thursday toward upholding a law forcing Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell off TikTok, with all nine justices indicating national security concerns posed by the social media app outweighed potential threats to free speech.

The US Supreme Court on Friday (January 11) appeared likely to uphold a law that would ban short-video sharing app TikTok in the country on January 19 if ByteDance, the Chinese parent company doesn't divest from the platform.

The Supreme Court appeared largely—though not entirely—unmoved by arguments that a federal ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of the