The fate of TikTok seems to be sealed for the moment. The Biden administration firmly announced the social media giant would have to look to the Trump administration for help after tomorrow’s ban likely will see the app go dark.
The Chinese-owned company said it would cut off its services unless the U.S. assures Apple, Google and other companies that they would not be punished for hosting and distributing TikTok.
TikTok said it will be forced to go dark on January 19, the day the ban is set to take effect, without more assurances it won't be enforced.
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,
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is required to sell the app to a U.S.-based buyer or face a nationwide ban.
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.
The Media Copilot’ founder Pete Pachal discusses the looming TikTok ban in the United States and the potential effects on ‘Fox News Live.’
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he may give TikTok 90 days to work out a deal that would allow the platform to avoid a US ban.
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 Chinese app RedNote, the surge of English speakers learning Mandarin on Duolingo,
Whether or not the ban holds for very long, the many unique communities on the platform will inevitably scatter across myriad smaller apps — and many will disappear altogether.
President-elect Trump is likely to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to finalize a deal and prevent a U.S. ban. He indicated that a decision would be ma