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As of 11:15 a.m. ET on Sunday, the TikTok website was accessible on desktop internet browsers, USA TODAY staff and two sources confirmed. Click here to learn more. TikTok may be dark in America ...
Internet searches for "VPN" soared moments after TikTok users cut off U.S. users, Google Trends shows. “No luck with a VPN. Tried accessing from both Australia and the UK,” one person wrote on ...
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 to a U.S. investor or the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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.
In October 2020, TikTok users in Armenia reported a loss of app functionality, although it has not been confirmed whether this was the result of any intervention by the Armenian government in response to the use of the app by Azerbaijani sources to spread misinformation during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war.
In March 2024, Trump reversed his position on banning TikTok, and began advocating against banning the app. Trump argued that while the app's national security and data privacy concerns should still be addressed, banning TikTok would empower Facebook, which he labeled the "enemy of the people."
TikTok users themselves have tested the waters with several other platforms outside of the established platforms. Among the ones that have received the most buzz: China’s Xiaohongshu (“RedNote ...
A law effectively banning the TikTok app in the U.S. has gone into effect. App stores have removed the app, but TikTok won't delete it from devices on which it has been installed.