Jan. 17 on The Story: Come Monday, roughly 170 million Americans could lose access to the video sharing app TikTok. It's a case that has come to embody the tension between the U.S. and China, plus the growing role that social media plays in both politics and everyday life. After the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ban passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden last year, the app's only chance of continuing to operate in the U.S. is if its Chinese parent company sells it off. U.S. officials have railed against the access to Americans' data that TikTok gives the Chinese government — but the ban still represents an unprecedented extension of federal regulation into the realm of social media, where the commodification of user data is an open secret. Watch more The Story videos: http://bit.ly/watchTheStory Follow The Story on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheStoryKGW Follow The Story on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thestorykgw