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TikTok Ban live: President Trump signs exec order giving TikTok a penalty-free 75-day extension
Refresh 2025-01-21T01:49:34.752Z TikTok gets 75-day extension with new Trump Exec order (Image credit: Getty Images) Just hours after being inaugurated and as promised, President Donald Trump signed an executive order postponing the TikTok ban for 75 days. This makes official the previous administration’s promise to not enforce the TikTok ban,…
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TikTok Ban live: Trump signals exec order and TikTok starts slowly returning to US operation
Refresh 2025-01-19T17:56:25.295Z Surprise! TikTok reportedly coming back online in anticipation of Trump Exec order (Image credit: Whitehouse.gov) Hours after incoming President Donald Trump promised to sign an executive order to extend the period before penalties related to the TikTok ban take effect, TikTok signaled on X (formerly Twitter) that it…
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TikTok Ban live: TikTok is officially banned in the US but there are glimmers of hope
Refresh 2025-01-19T17:10:19.409Z Trump says he’ll act on Monday to bring back TikTok (Image credit: Future) On the list of priorities, incoming President Donald Trump has when taking office on Monday Janaury 20, dealing with the TikTok ban might naturally fall to the bottom of the list. But Trump seems keen…
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TikTok Ban live: The shutdown is underway as some users lose access early
Refresh 2025-01-19T02:04:44.346Z The shutdown has begun (Image credit: Future) There are still hours to go before the ban goes into effect but TikTok isn’t wasting any time. Users are starting to receive notices that the service will be temporarily unavailable. If there’s any good news in this message is that…
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TikTok Ban live: Last day filled with memories, sadness, songs, and some anger – what happens next?
Refresh 2025-01-18T16:42:24.577Z (Image credit: Future) At midnight ET TikTok may go dark. Some believe the feed will disappear from the app. Others believe the app might cease to open at all. No one is clear on exactly how what TikTok terms “go dark” will manifest on the platform. In the…
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TikTok Ban live: Breaking – Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but it could still survive in US
Refresh 2025-01-17T17:05:25.613Z China’s on the call (Image credit: Getty Images) While no one, including TikTok, has commented on the Supreme Court ruling, there was some action right before the Justices upheld the ban. TechCrunch reported that incoming president Donald Trump had a call with China President Xi Jinping about a…
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