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TikTok Is Already Back Online


Less than 24 hours after the app went dark, TikTok says President-elect Donald Trump has given it the reassurance it needs to resume service in the US.

Less than 24 hours after going dark, TikTok says it has come back online after President-elect Donald Trump gave the company's service providers—presumably Apple, Google, and Oracle—reassurance that his administration wouldn’t enforce a law banning the app in the first place. We will work with President Trump on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States." Last year, Congress passed a law that required ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to divest its US operations or face a ban starting January 19.

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