The TikTok platform faces a possible shutdown in the U.S. this Sunday. , where, after her meteoric rise, she has been accused of being controlled by the authorities in Beijing, something denied by her parent company,

Update: Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. Read more. The start of the weekend marks two days until the social media platform TikTok could be banned in the United States. TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance has until Sunday to sell the platform under federal legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden last spring.