TikTok Had a Tumultuous Year. What’s Ahead in 2025?
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:35.4 | it's tuesday december 31st i I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.1 | We're hearing from our reporters and columnists about some of the biggest companies, trends, and people in tech and what could be in store for 2025. |
| 0:49.6 | TikTok faces an uncertain future in the U.S. The Supreme Court is set to decide whether a law that would ban the app over national security concerns violates the First Amendment. |
| 1:00.9 | Oral arguments are set to begin days before the ban is supposed to take effect on January 19th. |
| 1:06.2 | The law would ban TikTok if it doesn't shed its Chinese ownership. |
| 1:10.1 | TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has said that it can't and won't sell its U.S. business. |
| 1:14.6 | Last week, President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop the ban from taking effect, |
| 1:19.6 | saying he wants to pursue a negotiated resolution to prevent a nationwide shutdown of the social media giant. |
| 1:26.6 | Meanwhile, TikTok has continued to accrue cultural capital, |
| 1:30.5 | attracting the likes of politicians, legacy media outlets, and of course, influencers. |
| 1:35.4 | But what could happen to the app in the next year? |
| 1:38.7 | Our tech reporter Georgia Wells covers social media, |
| 1:41.1 | and she spoke with her colleague Belle Lynn about this. |
| 1:46.0 | Here's their conversation. |
| 1:53.2 | So give us a bit of an overview of how we got to this point where TikTok is again fighting a ban or a forced sale in the U.S. So TikTok is owned by a Chinese company called |
| 1:59.7 | ByteDance. And so basically years, TikTok has faced this scrutiny about its ties to China. |
| 2:07.1 | And so, like, even way back in 2020, Trump tried to ban TikTok with an executive order, but that fell apart in court. |
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