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(The Center Square) – On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day reprieve from the law that banned the app in the U.S. over the weekend.
And it marks a significant disruption for TikTok’s 170 million American users, many of whom use the app for hours every day to find news, entertainment and community and, in some cases, to make ...
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 Supreme Court has paved the way for TikTok to be banned in the U.S. on Sunday. The high court on Friday upheld a new law that requires the social media app's Chinese owner to sell off TikTok's ...
TikTok is set to "go dark" on Sunday for its 170 million American users after the Supreme Court upheld a law that would ban the app in the United States.. In April, President Joe Biden signed a ...
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [129] 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. [130] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [131]
The law to effectively ban social media app TikTok was officially upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday.. The case, which has become a landmark moment of free speech versus national security, has ...
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 ...