Listen live: Supreme Court hears arguments on TikTok

Some of the 170 million Americans who use TikTok to sell cookies, promote books by Black authors, comment on sports, advocate for sexual assault survivors and more say the stakes couldn’t be higher when the Supreme Court on Friday debates the fate of the wildly popular short-form video app. The court has rarely, if ever, confronted a free speech case that matters to so many people, lawyers for TikTok content creators told the justices in a filing. The TikTok users said they will lose the most powerful mechanism available to make their voices heard unless the high court blocks a federal law requiring TikTok break its ties with the Chinese government or be banned in the U.S. on Jan. 19.