TikTok goes dark in the US ahead of ban

App no longer available on US Apple and Google stores after supreme court upholds lawmakers’ ban

TikTok stopped working in the US late on Saturday, shortly before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app was due to take effect.

The app was no longer available on Apple’s iOS App Store or Google’s Play Store. The US Congress passed a law in April mandating that parent company ByteDance either sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner or face a total shutdown. It chose the latter.

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TikTok goes dark in the U.S. as ban takes effect

TikTok was not available for many of its 170 million users in the U.S. hours before a ban on the social media platform was supposed to go into effect.
NBC News - 1h
TikTok goes dark across US

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TikTok goes offline in the US hours before ban due to come in

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The TikTok ban went into effect on Saturday for some users.
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