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On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [125] 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. [126] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [127]
TikTok will be banned in the United States on Jan. 19, 2025, after a federal appeals court rejected its bid to overturn the ban that President Biden signed in April. The law states that if TikTok ...
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 ...
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.
The Islamic Republic bans TikTok along with other internationally popular social media platforms including X and Facebook. Ireland. TikTok was banned from government devices in Ireland in April ...
TikTok has lost its bid to strike down a law that could result in the platform being banned in the United States. A US appeals court upheld the law in a ruling Friday.
Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, hell banning, ghost banning, and comment ghosting, is the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user, regardless of whether the action is taken by an individual or an algorithm.
TikTok is already banned in a handful of countries and from government-issued devices in a number of others, due to official worries that the app poses privacy and cybersecurity concerns.