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TikTok went dark for millions of Americans on Saturday night, one day after the Supreme Court upheld a law effectively banning the app in the U.S.. Owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, the short-form ...
Social video app TikTok has gone dark in the United States hours before a law requiring it to divest of its Chinese ownership went into effect. TikTok Goes Dark In U.S., But Trump Vows To Restore It
There has been talk of banning TikTok in the U.S. since it surged in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump first announced his plan to ban the platform from operating in the U.S. during ...
TikTok ban: The long goodbye. TikTok’s future had been flickering for weeks. Concerns that Beijing could manipulate content to shape U.S. opinion and gather sensitive user data through the ...
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.
Other apps owned by TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance, including CapCut, Lemon8 and Gauth, displayed similar messages and also became unavailable to many U.S. users Saturday evening.
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In December 2022, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed two separate lawsuits against TikTok in the Allen County Superior Court in Fort Wayne, Indiana. [12] The first complaint alleged that the platform exposed inappropriate content to minors, and that TikTok "intentionally falsely reports the frequency of sexual content, nudity, and mature/suggestive themes" on their platform which made ...