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TikTok goes darkish within the US

By Miles Cooper
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January 19, 2025
TikTok goes darkish within the US
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TikTok goes darkish within the US

NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok’s app was faraway from outstanding app shops on Saturday simply earlier than a federal regulation that will have banned the favored social media platform was scheduled to enter impact.

By 10:50pm Japanese Customary Time, the app was not discovered on Apple and Google’s app shops, that are prohibited from providing the platform beneath a regulation that required TikTok’s China-based dad or mum firm, ByteDance, to promote the platform or face a U.S. ban.

When customers opened the TikTok app on Saturday night, they encountered a pop-up message from the corporate that prevented them from scrolling on movies.

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“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S.,” the message mentioned. “Unfortunately that means you can’t use TikTok for now.”

“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office,” the message mentioned. “Please stay tuned!”

Earlier than that announcement went out, the corporate had mentioned in one other message to customers that its service could be “temporarily unavailable” and informed them its working to revive its U.S. service “as soon as possible.”

The federal regulation, that was signed by President Joe Biden final yr, required ByteDance to divest its stake within the TikTok’s U.S. platform or face a ban. ByteDance had 9 months to promote the U.S. operation to an authorised purchaser. The corporate, and TikTok, selected to take authorized motion in opposition to the regulation and in the end misplaced their struggle on the Supreme Courtroom on Friday.

Beneath the statute, cell app shops are barred from providing TikTok and web internet hosting companies are prohibited from delivering the service to American customers.

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Each White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Deputy Legal professional Basic Lisa Monaco had mentioned that the Biden administration would depart the regulation’s implementation to President-elect Donald Trump on condition that his inauguration falls the day after the ban takes impact.

However TikTok mentioned after the courtroom ruling on Friday that it “will be forced to go dark” if the administration didn’t present a “definitive statement” to the businesses that ship its service within the U.S.

Nonetheless, White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre known as TikTok’s demand a “stunt” and mentioned there was no motive for TikTok or different firms “to take actions in the next few days before the Trump administration takes office.”

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In an interview with NBC Information on Saturday, President-elect Donald Trump mentioned he was fascinated by giving TikTok a 90-day extension that will permit them to proceed working.

The federal regulation permits the sitting president to increase the deadline by 90 days if a sale is in progress. However no clear consumers have emerged, and ByteDance has beforehand mentioned it gained’t promote TikTok.

If such an extension occurs, Trump mentioned it will “probably” be introduced on Monday.

On Saturday, synthetic intelligence startup Perplexity AI submitted a proposal to ByteDance to create a brand new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok U.S. enterprise, based on an individual conversant in the matter. If profitable, the brand new construction would additionally embrace different traders and permit ByteDance’s current shareholders to retain their stake within the firm, the particular person mentioned.

Perplexity isn’t asking to buy the ByteDance algorithm that feeds TikTok person’s movies primarily based on their pursuits and has made the platform such a phenomenon.

Different traders have additionally been eyeing TikTok. “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary just lately mentioned a consortium of traders that he and billionaire Frank McCourt put collectively provided ByteDance $20 billion in money. Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin additionally mentioned final yr that he was placing collectively an investor group to purchase TikTok.

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