In a collision between free speech and national security, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the fate of TikTok, a digital age cultural phenomenon that roughly half the U.S. population uses for entertainment and information.

The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app's fate in their hands. The popular social media platform says the law violates the First Amendment and should be struck down.

Facing a looming ban in the United States, TikTok's fate will be in the hands of the Supreme Court in a case being argued on Friday that pits free speech rights against national security concerns over the widely used short-video app owned by Chinese company ByteDance.