A US appeals court has denied TikTok’s emergency bid to block a law requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to divest the app by January 19 or face a ban. TikTok, which boasts over 170 million users in the US, is now urged to appeal to the Supreme Court. The law raises concerns over foreign ownership and national security, with the Justice Department arguing that continued Chinese control poses a threat. TikTok counters that its operations in the US mitigate these risks.