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A ban on TikTok in the United States could go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19, if Beijing-based parent company ByteDance doesn't sell the video-sharing app's U.S. assets.
However, President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News that he was considering granting an extension that might allow TikTok to keep going beyond Sunday, when a law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing TikTok to U.S. users takes effect.
The Pentagon recommends that all U.S. military personnel delete TikTok from all phones, personal and government-issued. Some services ban the app on military owned phones. In January, the Pentagon bans the app from all military phones. TikTok becomes the second-most downloaded app in the world, according to data from analytics firm SensorTower.
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the looming TikTok ban may have corporate consequences far beyond the app's parent company, impacting American tech giants and the broader U.S. stock market.
TikTok mounted a last-ditch effort at the Supreme Court on Friday meant to stop a ban of the app set to take effect within days -- but the platform's arguments may have landed with a thud. TikTok ...
Among these TikTok users, 90% said they used the app daily. [230] TikTok's geographical use in 2019 has shown that 43% of new users were from India before the social platform was banned in the country. [231] But adults have also seen growth on TikTok. The share of U.S. adults who regularly get news from TikTok hit 14% in 2023. [232]
The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance—which initially planned on selling a small portion of TikTok to an American company—agreed to divest TikTok to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries where restrictions are also being considered due to privacy concerns, which themselves are mostly related to its ownership by a ...
ByteDance Ltd. is a internet technology company headquartered in Raffles Quay, ByteDance Ltd., Singapore, and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. [7]Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo, and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing apps TikTok and Douyin.