TikTok told users in the United States late on Saturday that it will “not be available for a while” on Sunday when the ban on the app goes into effect in the US.
Logging in users were met with a message that said the order had “forced our services to be temporarily unavailable. We are working to restore our service in the US as soon as possible.”
TikTok said on Friday that unless Biden’s administration “gives concrete assurance” and confirms that it will not enforce the ban, the platform will be “forced to go dark” on January 19.
On Thursday, a US official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the Biden administration thinks President Joe Biden will not press ahead, leaving the fate of the media program in the hands of the president-elect. Donald Trump.
Congress last year, in a law signed by Biden, required TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest the company on January 19, a day before Trump’s inauguration. The official said the outgoing administration is leaving the implementation of the law — and enforcement of the ban — to Trump.
With the US ban on TikTok starting Sunday, The National asks cybersecurity expert Ritesh Kotak what it will look like for the 170 million Americans who use the popular social media app and what it means for Canadian content creators.
The US Supreme Court on Friday he kept the law banning TikTok in the United States for national security reasons if ByteDance doesn’t sell TikTok, putting the popular short-film program on hold.
The court’s 9-0 decision leaves the social network with 170 million American users in disarray, and its fate is in the hands of Trump, who has already vowed to save TikTok after returning to the presidency on Monday.
2025-01-18 18:02:45
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