WASHINGTON (CN) — TikTok inched closer to a ban Friday as the Supreme Court justices pinned looming nationwide restrictions on the refusal of the app’s foreign-based owner to divest from the popular social platform. “You’re wrong about the statute saying, ‘TikTok you have to go mute,’” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Joe Biden appointee, said.

He bought his first home by devising a formula to identify Beijing’s best community. And he became China’s richest person after creating TikTok, the massively popular app built around an algorithm that predicts the videos people would enjoy based on their previous activity.