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Content creators protest the TikTok ban outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. in January 2025. Credit - Andrew Harnik--Getty Images The TikTok ban is swiftly approaching on ...
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 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 ...
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.
TikTok was offline in the United States for about 14 hours, before the company said a post from Trump gave it the confidence to restore access to the app. Trump was the first to try to ban TikTok ...
What will happen on Jan. 19 if TikTok is banned? If you do not have TikTok on your phone by Jan. 19, you will not be able to download it once the ban takes effect.
TikTok has been banned on devices owned by the federal government. It has also been banned in all 50 states on devices issued by state governments. [106] Some universities have banned TikTok on campus Wi-Fi and university-owned computers. [107] New York City has banned the app on city-owned devices. [108]
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 .