For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,
While TikTok has been restored for millions of American users after going dark, the app still isn't available on Apple's App Store or Google Play.
President Donald Trump has 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.
The app’s availability in the U.S. has been thrown into jeopardy over data privacy and national security concerns.
While Trump gained praise from users for the reprieve, he faces long-time skeptics in his own Republican Party about what they see as the app’s ongoing national security threat.
If Trump can upend the TikTok ban through secret deals and an impending executive order, what’s stopping him from doing the same to other valid federal laws?
The company said TikTok was coming back online in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump provided assurances to its service providers.
Popular TikTok accounts such as DuoLingo shared trade secrets before the app went dark in the US, while creators confessed to long-running inside jokes.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that will postpone enforcement of the federal TikTok ban by 75 days.The order was part of a slew of directives Trump signed in the hours following his inauguration.
CapCut is a free video-editing platform created, owned and operated by ByteDance. It was launched in the U.S. in 2020. It was the second most downloaded photo and video app in the Apple App Store after Instagram, according to USA Today.
An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.