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The TikTok ban was part of a $95 billion foreign aid package that included funding for Ukrainian military equipment, humanitarian aid for Gaza and Taiwan and Israeli missile defense in addition to ...
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 ...
TikTok faces a possible ban in the U.S. as soon as Sunday if a law that could require the social media app's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to part ways with the platform takes effect as scheduled on ...
The U.S. Supreme Court officially upheld the law to ban the TikTok social media app on Friday, closing the door on the app's bid to continue functioning in the U.S. but leaving plenty of questions ...
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [131] 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. [132] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [133]
Update: Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. Read more. TikTok will soon go dark for 170 million American users barring an 11th-hour development. The Supreme Court heard ...
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.
Austria has banned TikTok from all government employee devices as of May 2023. Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan blocked TikTok temporarily during border clashes with Armenia in September 2022.