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TikTok starts warning US users it will be “temporarily unavailable”
TikTok failed to avoid a federal ban.
Around 6 PM Pacific time, the app began notifying people in the US, including Verge staffers, with a message that says the ban will “make our services temporarily unavailable.” The company warned on Friday that it would be forced to go dark if the Biden administration didn’t give assurances to its service providers, like Apple and Google, which can be fined thousands of dollars per US user of TikTok once the ban goes into effect. The law that was upheld by the Supreme Court states that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, must sell its ownership stake in the app for it to continue operating in the US.
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