Millions of TikTok users in the US awoke to discover they could no longer access the TikTok app or platform.
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to issue an executive order that would give TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the popular video-sharing platform is subject to a permanent US ban.
“Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations,” he wrote. Millions of TikTok users in the US were no longer able to watch or post videos on the platform as of Saturday night. A message reading ‘Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now’ is displayed from the TikTok app on a mobile phone screen in Nashville, Tennessee
Mr Trump, who once favoured a TikTok ban, said in an NBC News interview on Saturday that he was thinking about granting ByteDance a 90-day extension to find an approved buyer for the app’s US operations. Apple said in a statement on its website that three TikTok apps and eight other ByteDance-created apps were no longer available in the US, while visitors to the country might have limited access.
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