For years, questions about security have surrounded the popular social media app TikTok because of its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Now, American users are facing a national ban due to the Supreme Court’s Jan. 17 decision to uphold a lower court’s law requiring the parent company, ByteDance, to either divest ownership or shut down in the United States. Should no major structural changes occur within TikTok’s ownership, the app will be forced to cease operations in the United States on Jan. 19. TikTok, which was brought to life in China in 2016 and officially launched in the United States in 2018, grew exponentially following TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly in November of 2017….