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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 ...
Trump said he hadn’t made a final decision but was considering a 90-day extension of the Sunday deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell to a non-Chinese-buyer or face a U.S. ban.
The ban gave Chinese-owned ByteDance until 19 January to sell TikTok. If it fails to do so, a nationwide ban is set to come into force – despite having 170 million US users.
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.
The ban was in response to a military clash between Indian and Chinese troops in disputed territory along their shared border between Ladakh and Western China. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] After an earlier skirmish in 2017 between the militaries of the two most populous countries in the world, the Indian military demanded that its troops delete dozens of ...
Last year, Congress passed legislation to ban TikTok in the U.S. unless a U.S. buyer could be found to force a separation from the Chinese owner ByteDance. The deadline to find that buyer was ...
In 2020, then-president Donald Trump sought to ban TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat but was blocked by the courts. In recent days, he has raised concerns about a future ban. It remains unclear if ...
The Chinese government had recently criticized the Trump Administration's order as a "smash and grab" forced sale, while ByteDance suggested that it would prefer the shuttering of U.S. operations over such a sale. [56] On September 13, it was reported that TikTok had chosen Oracle to act as the former's "trusted tech partner." The partnership ...