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In May 2023, Montana became the first U.S. state to pass a ban that included personal devices, making it illegal for app stores to allow TikTok to be downloaded within Montana starting on 1 January 2024. [109] However, a federal judge blocked the state ban from taking effect in November 2023. [110]
Message displayed to US users on the TikTok app during the shutdown on January 18, 2025. The short-form video-hosting service TikTok has been under a de jure nationwide ban in the United States since January 19, 2025, due to the US government's concerns over potential user data collection and influence operations by the government of the People's Republic of China.
Despite the bans, TikTok has still succeeded in becoming one of the most popular apps in the world, passing 2 billion active users in 2024. The national bans focus on either state censorship or ...
"The voices of over 170 million Americans here in the U.S. and around the world will be silenced on Jan. 19, 2025, unless the TikTok ban is halted." More: Will TikTok be banned?
TikTok faces a possible ban in the U.S. as soon as Sunday if a law that could require the social media app's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to part ways with the platform takes effect as scheduled on ...
The Supreme Court has paved the way for TikTok to be banned in the U.S. on Sunday. The high court on Friday unanimously upheld a new law that requires the social media app's Chinese owner to sell ...
This has helped bring the total number of TikTok users around the world to above 2 billion, with only India’s ban nearly three years ago slightly slowing its growth – and only temporarily.
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law set to ban social media platform TikTok in less than 48 hours. "There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive ...