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TikTok ban goes into effect early, but the app may get a 90-day extension soon
TikTok and CapCut were taken offline in the US on Saturday night. But the ban may be temporary, according to Chinese parent company ByteDance.
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of the suddenly dark app, pulled TikTok on Saturday night, hours before the official “ban” was supposed to take effect on Sunday. That said, the US Congress did pass a bill that Biden signed into law in April 2024 that declared ByteDance must sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company or close the app on national security grounds. The confusion over whether or not the TikTok ban would take effect and actually be enforced left ByteDance, as well as app store owners Apple and Google, in the middle of a political quandary.
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