TikTok has told employees that its executives are planning “the way forward” ahead of the Supreme Court likely upholding a US ban of the app this week.

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form video app.

Ed Markey announced last night via press release that he would be proposing a bill to the Senate that would extend TikTok's ban deadline past this Friday. “The stakes here are high," Markey said. "That’s why I will soon introduce the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act to extend the deadline by which ByteDance must sell TikTok or face a ban by an additional 270 days.

Some lawmakers are asking the TikTok ban date to be extended until October. The current deadline is Sunday. Here's what to know.

Mass., is leading a bipartisan effort to give ByteDance more than to sell the U.S. portion of TikTok before Sunday's deadline.

There's a new push to extend the deadline to ban TikTok in the United States. Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey is among the lawmakers speaking out in support of creators on the app.

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