A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face an effective ban in the United States. If ByteDance fails to sell TikTok by Jan. 19, the law would require app store companies, like Apple and Google, and internet hosting providers to stop supporting TikTok, effectively banning the app. "On the merits, we reject each of the petitioners' constitutional claims," the appeals court panel said in its opinion on the decision Friday. President-elect Donald Trump has not yet said whether his administration will enforce the ban when he takes office next month. In a September post on Truth Social, Trump said he wasn't "doing anything with TikTok, but the other side is going to close it up, so if you like TikTok, go out and vote for Trump."

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Persons: Joe Biden, Jan, Troy Balderson, Donald Trump, Trump, Vance, Karoline Leavitt Organizations: U.S ., Washington , D.C, Apple, Google, Chinese Communist Party, Social, Trump, CNBC Locations: China, United States, Washington ,, Ohio