TikTok goes dark in the US as ban begins
TikTok is now unavailable in the United States after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning it in the country unless the app was sold by its Chinese parent company. TikTok’s owner ByteDance is appealing to President-elect Trump to bring it back online once he takes office. NBC’s Savannah Sellers reports for Sunday TODAY.
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