TikTok remained unavailable in Google and Apple app stores on Tuesday – even as speculation swirled about potential US buyers that could help “save” the embattled video-sharing app. The tech giants appeared unwilling to risk liability despite President Trump issuing an executive order late Monday delaying enforcement on Congress’s sale-or-ban bill by 75 days.
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TikTok’s future in the United States is yet to be seen following a Supreme Court ruling that cleared the way to ban the app Sunday and President-elect Donald Trump’s wish to keep it. The high court unanimously ruled Friday that the divest-or-ban law does not violate TikTok’s or its users’ First Amendment rights.
TikTok disappeared for a portion of the weekend, following a Supreme Court decision that upheld a 2024 federal law requiring the app to cease operations in the US unless it was sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance. TikTok is gradually resuming service in the US, but it has an unclear road ahead.
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President Trump says he will issue an executive order to delay banning the app; however, an Arizona constitutional attorney says the law is already settled.
A third of U.S. adults say they use TikTok, including 59% of adults under 30 who use the app. And about half of U.S. adult TikTok users (52%) say they regularly get news there; that works out to 17% of all U.
The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a law mandating the forced sale or ban of TikTok, a decision that places the app’s future in the United States in jeopardy. Signed by President Joe Biden,
The Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok, requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to American owners or shut it down by Sunday.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to keep TikTok operating for 75 days, a relief to the social media platform’s users even as national security questions persist.