The company says it plans to go dark after the Supreme Court upheld a sell-or-ban law, but Trump says he will likely intervene.
The U.S. Supreme Court officially upheld the law to ban the TikTok social media app on Friday.
Political shifts and legal hurdles have delayed TikTok's removal, with Biden reportedly kicking the issue to Trump.
The Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
Now that TikTok has finally reached the end of its legal options in the US to avoid a ban, somehow, its future seems less clear than ever. The Supreme Court couldn’t have been more direct: the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,
If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time.
With the ban upheld by the Supreme Court and the Biden administration leaving, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is banking on Trump to save the app in the US.
Severing ties was what the social media platform needed to do in order to avoid the ban. The platform’s fate may be up to President-elect Donald Trump, who said he will likely grant TikTok a 90-day extension after his inauguration.
TikTok's app was removed from prominent app stores on Saturday evening just before a federal law that bans the popular social media platform went into effect.
As TikTok shut down on Saturday, a final message to US users suggested it was relying on President Trump to save the app.
TikTok disconnected access to its users in the United States late Saturday shortly before a national ban on the app was to take effect, with President