Despite all of this, Trump has decided that the best course of action is to delay the shutdown of TikTok, even though he was one of the first to endorse a ban. His reason for the delay is that he wants to broker a sale, but that doesn’t explain his flipping from leading the charge on a ban to trying to save it.
A TikTok ban briefly came into effect this past weekend in the U.S., but service came back the next day. What exactly happened?
TikTok went offline in the United States Saturday night, less than two hours before a ban was slated to go into effect.
Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with
Coco Gauff said she hopes TikTok "comes back" in the U.S. after the federal ban of the popular app took effect Saturday.
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that TikTok remains a national security threat and he hopes President-elect Trump can reaches a deal that leads to China-based ByteDance selling its stake in the app.
The app went dark nationwide on Saturday night, but the company indicated it was in the process of restoring the service after assurances from President-elect Donald J. Trump.
TikTok went offline at 10:30 p.m. ET in the United States on Saturday as a federal ban was enacted. Apple subsequently removed the app from the App Store, saying it is “obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates.”
Content creator Jimmy Donaldson, known on the Internet as MrBeast, has made it clear he is interested in buying TikTok. Donaldson has the most subscribers of any user on YouTube— over 340 million—and boasts over 113 million TikTok followers.
Original: TikTok is now officially banned and unavailable in the United States, ensuring it can no longer be used by those who have the app downloaded. TikTok is one of the biggest platforms on ...
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…” — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution During the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the famous Pentagon Papers case,