Biden announces plans to defer TikTok ban enforcement to the Trump administration.

The Biden administration has announced that it will not actively enforce the federal law banning the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, and will instead leave any action to the incoming Trump administration.

Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court upheld the impending ban, which will take effect on Sunday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has made a decision on the TikTok matter, and the Administration, like the rest of the country, has awaited it. President Biden has been clear about his position on TikTok for months, including since Congress passed a bill in a bipartisan manner that required TikTok to be available to Americans under American ownership or another ownership structure that addresses national security concerns.

The next Administration will implement the law, as it is not feasible for this Administration to do so.

On Thursday, a U.S. official informed the Associated Press that Biden would not enforce the ban on the social media app that was scheduled to take effect the day before he departed office. As a result, the app's future is now in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump and his incoming administration.

"The Supreme Court ruled that TikTok offers a unique platform for expression, engagement, and community for more than 170 million Americans. However, Congress has decided that divestiture is necessary to address national security concerns about TikTok's data collection practices and ties to a foreign adversary."

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The court ruled that the challenged provisions do not infringe on petitioners' First Amendment rights. The decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is upheld.

In the previous year, Congress mandated ByteDance to divest TikTok by January 19th. This law was later signed into law by Biden.

The law was passed with Congress expressing concerns about TikTok's Chinese ownership, which could lead to the app being weaponized or used to gather large amounts of user data, including from the 170 million Americans who use it.

The Biden administration lawyers contended that the app's Chinese ownership posed a "serious" national security risk to American users, while TikTok's lawyers countered that such a ban infringed on free speech protections under the First Amendment.

The government must prove a compelling interest when attempting to justify the constitutionality of a law that challenges the First Amendment. The First Amendment protections must be carefully crafted to achieve that interest.

Planet Chronicle Digital's Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.