T he fate of TikTok in the United States will soon be in the hands of the Supreme Court, as the Justices hear oral arguments Friday over a law that could shut down the popular social media platform.

The court, which hears arguments on Friday in a challenge to a law banning the app, has issued varying rulings when those two interests clashed.

The Supreme Court will consider the landmark TikTok ban, balancing free speech and national security over ByteDance’s Chinese ownership risks.

The Chinese-owned app is battling for survival as a deadline looms over its fate.

While President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to block a looming U.S. ban on TikTok in a major case being argued on Friday that pits free speech rights against national security concerns over the Chinese-owned short-video app,

President-elect Donald Trump has urged the Supreme Court to halt the Jan. 19 TikTok ban if parent company ByteDance fails to sell the platform.

President-elect Trump's highly unusual intervention in the Supreme Court's TikTok case reads almost like a guy asking for a favor from an institution that still runs on formality. The big picture: Trump's last-minute effort to give TikTok a stay of execution is one more twist in a case that already scrambles every ideological dividing line.

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments Friday in a case over the future of social media giant TikTok in the United States, a challenge that experts say also could affect the power of Congress to regulate social media.