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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 U.S. Supreme Court officially upheld the law to ban the TikTok social media app on Friday.. The case has become a pivotal moment in the debate over free speech and national security, following ...
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 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 law specifies that, in the absence of a “qualified divestiture” by ByteDance, the TikTok ban will go into effect 270 days (nine months) after its enactment — which would be Jan. 19, 2025.
Bipartisan majorities in Congress passed the legislation, which Biden signed into law in April. The law was the culmination of a yearslong saga in Washington over TikTok, which the government sees ...
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [130] 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. [131] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [132]
A potential ban on TikTok could cause the app to disappear as soon as Jan. 19. ... the Supreme Court upheld a law signed by President Joe Biden last year that requires TikTok to divest from ...