TikTok was banned in the U.S. due to national security concerns over its Chinese ownership, prompting federal action requiring ByteDance to divest. Despite delays in enforcement, the app remains ...

This added 80 million users, mostly in the US, which TikTok then imported to its own platform. From there, TikTok snowballed into the most popular app in 2019 and 2020. It was downloaded 693 million ...

The law banning TikTok in the United States took effect on Sunday, January 19, but President Trump quickly signed an order extending enforcement of the law. Over the last few years, the United ...

All of Americans’ TikTok user data could be moved to China in the event that the app is banned from the U.S. A precedent was set for such a move in 2020, when TikTok operations ended in India ...

Or at least, it was for a second. President-Elect Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social account that he’ll sign an ...

"Without U.S. approval, there is no Tik Tok ... dances and music clips. Despite its own part in getting the nationwide ban enacted, the Biden administration stressed in recent days that it did not ...

The platform then gave its 170 million American users the option to click close app or learn more ... “Without U.S. approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds ...

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.

ByteDance has so far rebuffed the idea of selling TikTok. But the lawyer for the US government told the Supreme Court that a ban might be just the “jolt” needed to persuade it to consider the idea, ...

Triller, which started off as a TikTok competitor, could be a good alternative for people who are mainly interested in the music and dance aspects ... like beauty tutorials and product reviews.

With an American TikTok ban threatening the app, users and creators reflect on what it did for internet culture – and what ...