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TikTok isn’t back in the App Store yet


You may have to wait to re-download the app.

By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. However, its restoration so far suggests that the app’s hosting provider, Oracle, and its CDN partner, Akamai, are relying on Trump’s promise that there would be “no liability” for companies that support TikTok. Others in the government, like Republican Senator Tom Cotton, commended the app stores for removing ByteDance apps and said any company that facilitates TikTok “could face hundreds of billions of dollars of ruinous liability under the law, not just from DOJ, but also under securities law, shareholder lawsuits, and state AGs.”

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