TikTok’s attorney’s on Friday reiterated the popular app will shut down, rather than make a last-minute deal to keep it active in the U.S., if the app’s looming ban is not overturned by the Supreme Court. The app, which boasts 170 million American users, is set to be removed from the U.S. on Jan. 19.
“At least as I understand it, we go dark,” TikTok attorney Noel Francisco said on Friday. “Essentially the platform shuts down.”
That comment comes after TikTok said in court filings in December that it planned to completely exit the U.S. if its ban is not canceled at the last minute.