TikTok Goes Dark in the U.S.
TikTok is gone—at least for now.
The social media site with more than 170 million American users that has spawned untold numbers of viral videos and drawn the federal government’s ire for its possible connections to the Chinese government went dark on Saturday night—just a few hours before a federal law banning the site was scheduled to take effect.
“Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” the message that greeted users reads. “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.”
The app seems to have been removed from app stores run by Apple and Google. The app’s swift disappearance comes at the end of a wild week that saw the U.S. Supreme Court reject TikTok’s last-ditch effort to avoid the federal ban, even as some lawmakers who voted for the ban and the Biden administation seemed to back away from the ide
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