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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 ...
Tweet discussing TikTok ban and prospects of sale to an American company to avoid being banned. Image credits: andrews_A_ Twitter reply saying "Land of the free" amidst TikTok ban discussions.
A federal appeals court denied TikTok's petition for the Supreme Court to pause and review legislation that could ban the social media app in the United States. However, a comment from President ...
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.
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]
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 ...
The result was that the parent company of TikTok, ByteDance—which initially planned on selling a small portion of TikTok to an American company—agreed to divest TikTok to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries where restrictions are also being considered due to privacy concerns, which themselves are mostly related to its ...
TikTok said in a statement Friday it "will be forced to go dark" on Jan. 19 unless the Biden administration gives more definitive assurances ahead of the scheduled ban. Noel Francisco, an attorney ...