A TikTok sign is displayed on top of their building...

A TikTok sign is displayed on top of their building in Culver City, Calif., on Dec. 3, 2024. Credit: AP/Richard Vogel

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.

Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company’s connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech, either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.

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