The future of TikTok in the United States is facing a critical juncture as the Supreme Court deliberates on whether to delay a looming ban on the popular video-sharing app. On Friday morning, Jan. 10,

TikTok could be banned in just a little over a week, unless the Supreme Court does something about it — and it sounds like it won't.

While Supreme Court justices pressed both sides in Friday’s oral arguments, experts say it’s hard to see how TikTok gets enough votes to survive.

Project Liberty, an internet advocacy group led by Frank McCourt, declared on Thursday that it had offered to purchase the social networking platform from ByteDance, a Chinese technology company. TakeAway Points: An offer has been made by Project Liberty to purchase TikTok from ByteDance prior to its prohibition9.

Entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty and its consortium of partners in The People’s Bid said today they proposed to make a formal bid to ByteDance to buy TikTok’s U.