TikTok goes dark in the US ahead of ban

TikTok stopped working in the US late on Saturday, shortly before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app was due to take effect. The app was no longer available on Apple’s iOS App Store or Google’s Play Store. The US Congress passed a law in April mandating that parent company ByteDance either sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner or face a total shutdown. It chose the latter. TikTok said that divestment “is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally”. The company held that line until the very end. The app’s disappearance has been five years in the

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