TikTok fights on multiple fronts to keep its U.S. business. I'm David Brancaccio.

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will look at TikTok's plea for it to stop a law passed with bipartisan

support in Congress that forces the China-based company to sell its U.S. operations to a U.S.

company by this January the 19th,

Marketplace's Kimberly Adams reports. The government says TikTok is a national security risk for the

United States and a privacy risk for users. But now, President-elect Trump is asking the court to put

the law on hold. So, says Dan Wong, a professor at Columbia Business School,

the parent company, bite dance, is dragging its feet on implementing this. It is also raising concerns

that this is a violation of free speech rights as well. In the meantime, says Joe Freed, a media consultant and CEO of advertising firm, AdOps.a.

I think advertisers, brands, agencies have had plenty of time to start thinking about what comes next after a potential ban.

And ByteDance has been encouraging users to sign up for another one of its

platforms called Lemonade, hoping to preserve some of its audience just in case. TikTok could make

that pitch to its users that, hey, all you got to do is move over here. And now Congress has a

moving target. Mark Miller is an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.

The law is not written in a way that bite dance couldn't try and use that way to circumvent the law.

Whether that particular dance would fly in court, who knows.

In Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams for Marketplace.

There is news just now that billionaire Frank McCourt is part of a consortium of private equity,

family firms, and other rich people that is preparing to bid for TikTok's U.S. assets.

McCord, an entrepreneur, who used to own the L.A. Dodgers, said in a statement by keeping the

platform alive without relying on the current

TikTok algorithm and avoiding a ban, millions of Americans can continue to enjoy the platform.

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