Millions of Californians use TikTok. What happens if the popular app is banned?
In April, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to a U.S. company or shut down operations in the United States by Sunday, Jan. 19 — arguing that the app poses a risk to national security.
Trump Says He Won't Enforce TikTok Ban Until Spring
Unless it receives clarity and assurances from the Biden administration, TikTok says it will shut down before the ban takes effect. The clock may be running out for TikTok. The company behind the wildly popular social media platform says it will "go dark" on Sunday unless it receives clear assurances from government officials that the US ban set to take effect that day won't be enforced.
TikTok is banned but still alive. How?
But companies helping keep TikTok online in the United States are still taking a legal risk, said Gerstell and Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington’s law schoo
Why isn't TikTok appearing in app stores despite Trump's halt on the ban?
TikTok remains unavailable on Apple and Google app stores despite President Trump’s executive order temporarily pausing the federal ban. Here's what it means for users and the app's future.
Trump wants U.S. to own 50 per cent of TikTok: Here's the latest on the ban
TikTok is back online for United States users — for now. After a public pledge from President Donald Trump on Sunday to delay enforcement of a law that would ban the popular social media app, the company restored its services for those in the U.
Influential California TikTok creators to lose platform if ban goes into effect
With the TikTok ban poised to go into effect Sunday, some influential California creators will lose their main platform.
The California fires have brought devastation. On TikTok, those affected are telling their stories.
More than 10,000 homes and other structures have been destroyed by the Palisades and Eaton fires. This is a tragedy of ...
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TikTok content creators feeling confusion over the app's fate
Bay Area content creators say they feel uneasy about how TikTok’s uncertain future will impact their businesses.
Is TikTok doomed? California congressman files Hail Mary bill to temporarily spare the app
Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert! KHANNA CO-FILES BILL TO BUY TIME FOR TIKTOK On Sunday, time runs out for TikTok, the video-sharing social media app that President Joe Biden, Congress and a ...
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California wildfires: LA street vendors create pop-up donation center with help of TikTok
A crowd of at least 100 people stood organizing piles of donated clothes, toiletries, diapers and cases of water at a pop-up aid center for fire vicitims at the Santa Anita Race Track parking lot ...
TikTok creators react to restored service: 'My whole livelihood was on the line this weekend'
TikTok restored its US services on Sunday, easing the concerns of content creators who make their living off the platform — ...
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'No gray area': Trump’s TikTok exec order puts GOP lawmakers in bind
One of the many executive orders that President Donald Trump issued after returning to the White House on Monday, January 20 ...