A US Supreme Court ruling that will likely decide the fate of TikTok could come any day, with a potential ban of the popular social media platform set to take affect in less than a week. The nation's highest court is considering TikTok's request to overturn a law passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden last year that would effectively ban the app in the US if TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance doesn't sell it to a buyer deemed fit by US officials by Jan.

The lawyer for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance offered a warning during Supreme Court arguments over a law that would compel the sale of the short-video app or ban it in the United States: If Congress could do this to TikTok,