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TikTok has gone dark across the US - affecting 170 million American users - after the Supreme Court ruled against its bid to avoid a ban that has shut the app down. The ban is the end result of 2024 legislation passed on national security concerns that called for TikTok…

TikTok says it plans to go offline on Sunday, January 19th if the Biden administration doesn’t intervene. The company confirms earlier reporting that it will be “forced to go dark” on the 19th unless the outgoing administration provides a “definitive statement” assuring its “most critical service providers” that they won’t…

Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. And thanks to Jessica Levinson for guest writing last week’s recap on Donald Trump’s New York sentencing. This week was packed with legal news ahead of Trump’s inauguration Monday — so let’s jump right in. TikTok lost its Supreme Court battle against a U.S.…

The prospect of a United States TikTok ban has led to a slew of social media content attacking American politics and policy, with American and Chinese social media users reportedly sharing critical posts. One viral post claiming that the "Chinese people are learning that we fine the homeless people" was…

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The TikTok ban seems imminent. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would spell the end of TikTok as we know it in the United States, and now all parties involved are freaking out. Influencers are fleeing to rival platforms, including Xiaohongshu, a China-based app also known as…

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Millions of young people in the United States use TikTok, and many content creators are up in arms about the prospect of the popular video-sharing app shutting down under court order if it is not sold to an American entity. Photo: Leonardo Munoz / AFP Source: AFP "I almost, like,…

On Friday, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law that effectively bans the social media app TikTok in the United States, unless the platform’s China-based owner sells TikTok. Though Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch disagreed somewhat with the unsigned majority opinion’s rationale, no justice dissented. It’s also worth…

The Supreme Court has announced a unanimous ruling to uphold a law  banning TikTok  on Sunday, January 19, if the app does not sell to a non-Chinese owner by then, citing national security concerns.  TikTok, owned by ByteDance, could lose its 170 million American followers, including seven million of which…