TikTok said it will be "forced to shut down" on Sunday, January 19, unless it receives a "final statement" from the outgoing Biden administration that the app's technology partners will not be subject to divestment or ban Bill was punished.

The Supreme Court on Friday morning rejected an appeal by TikTok and parent company ByteDance to halt a law that would ban the popular video app in the United States starting Sunday unless China-based ByteDance bans it in the U.S. The shares in the application were divested to a party not based in its domicile. In a country considered a “foreign adversary.”

"Today's announcement from the Biden White House and Department of Justice fails to provide necessary clarity and assurance to service providers that are critical to maintaining TikTok's availability to more than 170 million Americans," TikTok said on Friday. “Unless the Biden administration immediately provides a clear statement that satisfies the most critical service providers’ demands and ensures that they are not enforced, TikTok will be forced to shut down on January 19.”

The Biden administration has passed on the decision to enforce the law to President-elect Donald Trump, who has said he wants to find a solution to keep TikTok legal in the United States.

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"The administration, like the rest of the country, has been awaiting a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on TikTok," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement after Friday's high court ruling. "Given the urgency of the matter, this government recognizes that action to implement this law must be the responsibility of the next government that takes office on Monday."

The law does not ban the use of the TikTok app in the United States, but instead imposes fines of $5,000 per user on companies that distribute or host the TikTok app. Tech companies such as Apple and Google (which offers TikTok in its app store) and Oracle (which has reached an agreement to host TikTok user data in the United States) may not be willing to risk violating the letter of the law. Apple, Google and Oracle did not respond to requests for comment on the impending TikTok ban.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in commenting on the Supreme Court’s ruling against TikTok and others. v. Garland, said in a statement Friday that “the next phase of this work — implementing and ensuring compliance with the law after it takes effect on January 19 — will be an ongoing process over time. The process of unfolding.”

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland commented: "The court's ruling enables the Department of Justice to prevent the Chinese government from weaponizing TikTok and thereby undermining U.S. national security. Authoritarian regimes should not have unfettered access to the sensitive information of millions of Americans." Data. The Court’s ruling affirms that the Act protects U.S. national security in a constitutional manner.”