If Trump ultimately does play a role in preventing the TikTok ban from going into effect, expect the move to be portrayed as some last-minute heroics. But it seems more likely that it would come as the result of some serious schmoozing by TikTok investors.

The head of the popular video social media site TikTok Shou Chew met with President-elect Donald Trump at his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to save the app.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is pulling every lever he has to overturn the US ban on his social media platform. This week, that means engaging the highest court in the US and appealing straight to the president-elect himself.

TikTok is appealing a ruling that national security concerns justify a law requiring the app be sold or face a ban. Trump has said he wants to 'save' TikTok.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok owner ByteDance’s appeal of a law that could ban the app. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is set to go into effect on January 19,

With time running out before the ban takes effect on Jan. 19, the justices agreed to decide the TikTok case on a fast-track basis, scheduling two hours of oral argument. "We're pl