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By Stephen Nellis and Max A. Cherney (Reuters) - Social media app TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, will be banned in the United States on Sunday unless a deal comes together to sell it ...
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [128] 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. [129] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [130]
TikTok could face a ban on January 19 due to a law requiring the platform to sever ties with its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or cease its U.S. operations.
TikTok's content moderation policies have been criticized as non-transparent (especially Douyin's). Internal guidelines depending on the country against the promotion of violence, separatism, and "demonization of countries" could be used to prohibit content related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Falun Gong, Tibet, Taiwan, Chechnya, Northern Ireland, the Cambodian genocide ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Why is TikTok getting banned? The controversial bipartisan ban follows concerns about the parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, giving American users' data to the Chinese government.