The TikTok ban lands at the Supreme Court on Friday. Turns out ByteDance is far from the only Chinese company in the US government’s crosshairs. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Travis Larchuk, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Illustration of President Donald Trump expressing support for TikTok in Shanghai, China. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The first time we covered a potential TikTok ban on Today Explained was way back in August of 2020, when the president at the time said he wanted to ban it.
For a while now, there's been this kind of floating concern in national security circles that is something going on with TikTok that the government should be worried about. But Trump has really escalated the attacks on TikTok.
The next time was in February of 2023 when Congress was humoring a ban. You could kind of just throw a dart in the congressional halls and probably hit some member that wants it banned. Then again in March of last year when Congress passed the ban. This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-tac-toe. A winner.
And then again again in April when said ban was signed into law.
This is consequential.
Now the TikTok ban is heading to the Supreme Court of the United States. I'm Sean Ramos from Get Ready With Me on Today Explained.
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