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A TikTok ban wouldn’t mean the app disappears from current users’ phones on Jan. 19. New users in the U.S. would likely no longer be able to download TikTok from app stores, and it would ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Supreme Court seemed inclined on Friday to uphold a law that would force a sale or ban the popular short-video app TikTok in the United States by Jan. 19, with the ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a blow to TikTok by upholding a law that could lead to a ban on the video-sharing social media platform in the United States.. In an unsigned ...
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.
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [133] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [134] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [135]
The No TikTok on Government Devices Act was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020. [3] The bill ( S. 1143 ) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021, by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.
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 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance on Thursday urged a U.S. court to strike down a law they say will ban the popular short video app in the United States on Jan. 19, saying ...