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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - TikTok told users in the United States late on Saturday it would be "temporarily unavailable" on Sunday when a law banning the app takes effect in the US.
Entities that violate this law can be fined by $5,000 per user who was illegally permitted to access or update the app. With TikTok's 170 million users, that would be a maximum of $8.5 billion ...
TikTok got a last-ditch hearing before the US Supreme Court last week, but the justices seemed skeptical of its arguments. And on Friday, they upheld the law. And on Friday, they upheld the law.
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.
How many US TikTok employees are there? TikTok has around 7,000 U.S. employees, according to Reuters . It is uncertain what will happen to those jobs if a U.S. ban were to go into effect.
TikTok, which has around 170 million users in the US, is now allowing people to download and update the app on Android devices without going through the Google Play store.
The No TikTok on Government Devices Act is a United States federal law that prohibits the use of TikTok on all federal government devices. [1] Originally introduced as a stand-alone bill in 2020, it was signed into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 on December 29, 2022, by President Joe Biden .
The Chinese-owned social media app TikTok has hailed “President Trump’s efforts” as it confirmed it is back online in the U.S. following a brief shutdown. TikTok went offline in the U.S. at ...