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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.
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]
As of Sunday, it will be illegal for app stores such as Apple and Google Play to distribute TikTok or issue updates to the social media app. Companies that don't abide face civil penalties of ...
Signed by President Joe Biden this spring, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will make TikTok illegal for distribution in the U.S. if ByteDance cannot ...
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the law, which makes it illegal for app stores such as Apple and Google Play to distribute TikTok or issue updates to the social media app ...
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 ...
Social media app TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, will be banned in the United States on Sunday unless a deal comes together to sell it to a U.S. investor or the U.S. Supreme Court ...
TikTok and parent company ByteDance filed a request Dec. 9 to pause legislation that could ban the app, ... TikTok will become illegal for distribution in the U.S., if ByteDance does not sell the ...