The TikTok app logo is shown on an iPhone on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Ashley Landis/AP hide caption
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The TikTok app logo is shown on an iPhone on Friday, Jan. 17 in Houston. Ashley Landis/AP hide caption
The TikTok logo is screened on a mobile phone with U.S. flag in the background for illustration photo in Krakow, Poland, on Jan. 17. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Callie Goodwin of Columbia, S.C., holds a sign in support of TikTok outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 10 in Washington, D.C. Goodwin, a small-business owner who sells personalized greeting cards, says 80% of her sales come from people who found her on TikTok. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, threatening app’s existence in the U.S.
The TikTok Inc. building is seen in Culver City, Calif., March 17, 2023. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
TikTok sued the Biden administration in response to a new law that bans the video app in the U.S. unless it is sold in the next 12 months. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday on the role of the First Amendment in the internet age. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
Supreme Court examines whether government can combat disinformation online
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Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas and Florida social media laws
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case where two local school board members in Poway, Calif., blocked two persistently critical parents from their social media pages. Samuel Corum/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The offices of the Marion County Record weekly newspaper sit across the street from the Marion County, Kan., Courthouse, Aug. 21, 2023, in Marion. The police chief who led the August raid on the small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, just days after he was suspended from his post, a City Council member confirmed Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. John Hanna/AP hide caption
Visitors stand near screens displaying the Meta logo in Berlin on June 6. Under a U.S. judge's new ruling, much of the federal government is now barred from working with social media companies to address removing content that might contain "protected free speech." Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Onion head writer Mike Gillis submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court this week. He says he hopes it will convince the court to take up an Ohio man's First Amendment case while educating the broader public. Mike Gillis hide caption
Kent Fuchs, the president of the University of Florida, delivers comments during a ceremony in Gainesville, Fla., on Sept. 15. Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun via Imagn Content Services, LLC/USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters hide caption
The preamble to the US Constitution. Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty hide caption
Protesters gather in front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland, where some demonstrators have been arrested and others released from jail on the condition that they not attend any more protests. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
A church in North Hollywood, Calif., stands empty last month after services were canceled because of coronavirus restrictions. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Facebook announced Wednesday that it will ban white nationalism and separatism content starting next week. "It's clear that these concepts are deeply linked to organized hate groups and have no place on our services," it said. Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks before signing an executive order Thursday requiring colleges to certify that their policies support free speech as a condition of receiving federal research grants. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Los Angeles County law enforcement officials announce the arrests of dozens of Mongol motorcycle club members on drug and murder charges in 2008. Ric Francis/AP hide caption
Andrea Mantegna's Madonna della Vittoria, housed in the Louvre in Paris, includes a depiction of Adam, Eve and those tempting apples. Christophel Fine Art/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
According to the Illinois Secretary of State's office, the temple has the same rights as religious organizations when it comes to displays in the statehouse. Brian Mackey/NPR Illinois 91.9 UIS hide caption