If Trump signs an executive order overturning the TikTok ban, it would give the app “more leeway” to find a buyer as it works its way through the courts, one legal expert tells TheWrap The post TikTok in Limbo: What Happens to Creators – and Can Trump Save Them?

The Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok, requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to American owners or shut it down by Sunday.

The fate of TikTok is keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision from the Supreme Court that could upheld their livelihoods

A third of U.S. adults say they use TikTok, including 59% of adults under 30 who use the app. And about half of U.S. adult TikTok users (52%) say they regularly get news there; that works out to 17% of all U.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a controversial ban on TikTok may take effect this weekend, rejecting an appeal from the popular app’s owners that claimed the ban violated the First Amendment.

The US Supreme Court ruled to uphold the law banning TikTok in the US unless the company sells to a non-adversary by January 19. If TikTok does not sell its ownership, the app's revenue and 170 million users could be consequential,

The outcome will affect many across the nation, including local influencers in Mississippi: Taylor Burns and Jessie Whittington. Burns is a fashion and lifestyle TikToker who goes by "Queen Tay" while Whittington makes specialty soap bars for her booming business Country Lather Soaps.

TikTok arrived in the U.S. almost 6 1/2 years ago. The possibility the U.S. would outlaw the video-sharing app has kept influencers and users in anxious limbo for more than four of the years since then.

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a controversial ban on TikTok may take effect this weekend, rejecting an appeal from the popular app's owners that claimed the ban violated the First Amendment. The court handed down an unsigned opinion and there were no noted dissents.

The U.S. is inching closer and closer to a potential TikTok ban — with the nation’s highest court upholding a law that’s set to halt new downloads of the app starting Sunday. But many questions around what exactly this ban will look like,

Two content creators on the peninsula have used the app to grow community pride. They plan to pivot if TikTok is banned.