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Members of the City Youth Organization in Hyderabad hold posters in support of India's ban of TikTok in June 2020. Credit - Noah Seelam/AFP—Getty Images When Congress passed a bill in April 2024 ...
TikTok fans in the U.S. are racing to secure alternatives and safeguard their digital empires ahead of a looming shutdown on Sunday, evoking the chaos of India's 2020 ban that erased the app from ...
A ban on TikTok in the U.S. – a congressional bill signed by President Biden – could go into effect Sunday, Jan. 19. Here's what users need to know.
The main reason for the ban in was reported to be social harmony being disturbed by "misuse" of the video app and that there was rising demand to control it. [41] The ban was lifted in August 2024 following an agreement between TikTok and the Government of Nepal to help identify criminal misuse of the app. [ 42 ] 10/02/2025
This most notably included TikTok, WeChat, and mobile games such as PUBG Mobile. [105] [106] [107] The stated reason for the bans were to protect the sovereignty, integrity, and security of India, and protect its citizens from software that was "stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorised manner to servers outside ...
If a TikTok ban occurs, established social media platforms, such as Meta’s Instagram, Snapchat and Google’s YouTube are expected to benefit from having one of their biggest competitors taken ...
This has helped bring the total number of TikTok users around the world to above 2 billion, with only India’s ban nearly three years ago slightly slowing its growth – and only temporarily.
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.