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More: Supreme Court may decide Friday if TikTok will be banned In its launch year, TikTok Shop quickly became the fourth most popular social e-commerce platform in the U.S., with 8.2% of online ...
#SwifTok — a Taylor Swift hashtag comprised of more than 350,000 fan-fueled TikTok videos — has been on edge as the social media company's future in the U.S. has been uncertain.. The Supreme ...
The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its ...
First released to the public in September 2017, TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service [80] used to make short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] On 9 November 2017, ByteDance acquired Shanghai -based social media start-up Musical.ly for up to US$ 1 billion.
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.
The result was that TikTok owner 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 ownership by a ...
But some things are clear, including the fact that TikTok won’t suddenly disappear from existing users’ phones. Yes, a TikTok ban is closer than ever. No, your app probably won’t just disappear
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the looming TikTok ban may have corporate consequences far beyond the app's parent company, impacting American tech giants and the broader U.S. stock market.