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Biden and Trump Weigh In as TikTok Threatens to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday
TikTok Confirms It Will Likely 'Go Dark' on Sunday
Tiktok will ‘go dark’ on Sunday. Here’s your guide to the ban
What does a TikTok “ban” mean for TikTok users? The Supreme Court has now upheld a federal law that calls for a nationwide ban on TikTok unless it finds a new owner that isn’t Chinese by Sunday. But the White House says enforcing the law will fall to the next administration,
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at the impacts of the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., including the “TikTok refugees” moving to
President-elect Donald Trump told ABC News he is likely to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban in the United States.
U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.
On Saturday, TikTok users in the United States scrolled through the app for what could be its final hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law that requires ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell the app by Sunday or otherwise face a ban.
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.
“Our position on this has been clear: TikTok should continue to operate under American ownership. Given the timing of when it goes into effect over a holiday weekend a day before inauguration, it will be up to the next administration to implement,” read the statement.
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Jan. 17, to uphold a law that would ban the app for the 170 million people who use the app in the U.S. The ruling lines up with decisions other courts have made and sets up the ban to go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19.
Search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to reportedly merge with TikTok.
At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users. (For comparison, the U.S. currently has over 170 million TikTok users.) Following military clashes along the disputed border between India and China,
Trump spoke to NBC News' Kristen Welker in an exclusive phone interview Saturday, discussing his plans on what to do about the popular social media app.
Kesha shared an Instagram post joking that her fans will still have a 'TiK ToK' to listen to after the Supreme Court announced its decision to allow the ban on the social media platform TikTok to go into effect on Jan.
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