In a new notification sent to users, TIkTok has confirmed it is shutting down in the United States effective January 19.The company says it is “working to restore” its service in the U.S.“as soon as possible.” TikTok ban officially goes into effect Here’s the full text of the notification that you’ll see when you open TikTok this evening: As of 9 p.m.
ET on January 18, TikTok is still accessible in the United States.That is expected to change once the clock strikes midnight and the calendar flips to January 19.The decision to shut down comes as TikTok’s China-linked parent company ByteDance failed to circumvent a law in the United States requiring it to sell the app or face a federal ban.
ByteDance was given nine months to offload TikTok, and that timeline officially expires at midnight tonight.TikTok took its case all the way to the U.S.Supreme Court, which upheld the law on Friday.
We’ve reached out to Apple for comment on the impending TikTok ban.As the law is written, Apple and Google will be barred from hosting TikTok in the App Store and Play Store starting tomorrow.reports that Oracle, TikTok’s main cloud computing provider in the United States, plans to shut off servers tonight.
Will Trump save TikTok? There are also a lot of politics at play in the United States.The ban goes into effect tomorrow, January 19, the final full day of President Biden’s term.On Monday, President Trump will officially take office.
The Biden administration has largely punted the burden of enforcing the law to the Trump administration, but the law still technically goes into effect as of Sunday.In an interview today with , Trump indicated that he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day extension: In an internal memo on Saturday night (obtained by ), TikTok told its employees that it is optimistic about the app’s future under Trump: If Trump follows through on this, TikTok could return to the United States as soon as Monday for at least 90 days.What happens after that, however, remains to be seen.
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