TikTok planning to go dark in the United States on Sunday, January 19, 2025
TikTok is preparing to shut down the U.S. version of its app Sunday, the day a law mandating its divestiture or removal from American app stores goes into effect, The Information reports, citing anonymous sources. Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, users who open TikTok will see a message linking to information about the ban. Until now, the presumption has been that existing users might still have access to TikTok until it degraded beyond usability.
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