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This would mean that TikTok wouldn’t be able to send updates, security patches and bug fixes to users, all of which will degrade the quality of the app and likely lead to security issues ...
He told NBC News Saturday he expects to "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day reprieve once back in the White House. The bill effectively banning the app says the platform would need to divest its U ...
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week about a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S., leading users, content creators and more to fret over the future of the app.
The muddiness around content removal and moderation on TikTok is an ongoing frustration for the app's users. TikTok has community guidelines, but there is no public list of specific words and phrases that are banned, and it is not clear how much moderation is done algorithmically versus by actual people. [52]
In October 2020, TikTok users in Armenia reported a loss of app functionality, although it has not been confirmed whether this was the result of any intervention by the Armenian government in response to the use of the app by Azerbaijani sources to spread misinformation during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Still, TikTok retains several avenues for avoiding a ban in a high-stakes standoff that could be decided in its final hours, experts told ABC News. Roughly 170 million TikTok users in the U.S ...
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 ...
Noel Francisco, TikTok’s lawyer, argued that the U.S. government has "no valid interest in preventing foreign propaganda," and reiterated TikTok's position that the platform and its owners ...