TikTok — Regulatory Order

The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the PAFACA divest-or-ban law in TikTok Inc. v. Garland, ruling 9–0 that the national security interests in preventing a foreign adversary from collecting data on 170 million Americans outweighed First Amendment concerns. The Court found the law was not a content- based restriction on speech but a regulation of a foreign- controlled platform's data practices.