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TikTok’s American users could have only a few more weeks to enjoy scrolling through their For You Page before the app is banned in the United States starting on January 19, 2025.
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.
Apple and Google brought TikTok back to their app stores for US users on Thursday night. TikTok had been unavailable to download in the US since January. TikTok's app was removed due to a divest ...
The popular social media app TikTok went dark for its 170 million American users on Jan. 19, after months of fighting the federal government’s demand that it separate from its China-based parent ...
TikTok has been banned on devices owned by the federal government. It has also been banned in all 50 states on devices issued by state governments. [107] Some universities have banned TikTok on campus Wi-Fi and university-owned computers. [108] New York City has banned the app on city-owned devices. [109]
The result was that the parent company of TikTok, 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 ...
Apple and Google restored TikTok to their app stores on Thursday after the popular social media app "went dark" last month. When TikTok briefly went dark, a message popped up for users, "Sorry ...
Most such accounts are soft-blocked, meaning a new account may be created while the old one is blocked. This is done because it is the account name, not the behavior of the person behind it, that is the problem. While it is possible to request a change in username, this takes a little longer and requires that a user with global rename access do ...