TikTok disappeared for a portion of the weekend, following a Supreme Court decision that upheld a 2024 federal law requiring the app to cease operations in the US unless it was sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance. TikTok is gradually resuming service in the US, but it has an unclear road ahead.
President Trump says he will issue an executive order to delay banning the app; however, an Arizona constitutional attorney says the law is already settled.
The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a law mandating the forced sale or ban of TikTok, a decision that places the app’s future in the United States in jeopardy. Signed by President Joe Biden,
TikTok’s future in the United States is yet to be seen following a Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way to ban the app Sunday and President-elect Donald Trump’s wish to keep it. The high court unanimously ruled Friday that the divest-or-ban law does not violate TikTok’s or its users’ First Amendment rights.
Several other ByteDance-owned apps went offline along with it, including the popular video editing app CapCut. With the app's fate now in limbo, many content creators have been left scrambling for alternatives while the future of their digital workflows remains up in the air.
TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below.
TikTok on Friday said that it would turn off more than 170 million Americans’ access to the super popular video app on Sunday, unless President Joe Biden’s administration acts urgently to assure the company it will not be punished for violating the terms of its looming ban.
A third of U.S. adults say they use TikTok, including 59% of adults under 30 who use the app. And about half of U.S. adult TikTok users (52%) say they regularly get news there; that works out to 17% of all U.
TikTok’s app and website effectively shut down in the United States late Saturday just before a nationwide ban against the video-sharing platform came into force.
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The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that could force TikTok to shut down in the United States, potentially cutting off the app's 170 million users within days. The Department of Justice noted that enforcing the law "will be a process that plays out over time,