15 minutes. That's how long TikTok will have this week to convince a federal appeals court to uphold a possible US ban on its social media app, which is used by 170 million Americans.
Those 15 minutes may be the most important of TikTok's US existence. The company is fighting for survival in the face of a law signed by President Joe Biden, whose main provisions could take effect as early as January.
The law signed by Biden aims to ban TikTok on Americans' personal devices unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, quickly sells TikTok to someone else.
With the deadline for a potential ban looming, TikTok and ByteDance have gone to court seeking to have the law blocked and declared unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds.
A three-judge panel will hear the case and decide, likely within weeks, whether the law is constitutional.
