Despite all of this, Trump has decided that the best course of action is to delay the shutdown of TikTok, even though he was one of the first to endorse a ban. His reason for the delay is that he wants to broker a sale, but that doesn’t explain his flipping from leading the charge on a ban to trying to save it.
TikTok went offline in the United States Saturday night, less than two hours before a ban was slated to go into effect.
A TikTok ban briefly came into effect this past weekend in the U.S., but service came back the next day. What exactly happened?
President-elect Donald Trump proposed the U.S. own half of TikTok to satisfy national security concerns and save the social media app.
The app went dark nationwide on Saturday night, but the company indicated it was in the process of restoring the service after assurances from President-elect Donald J. Trump.
After several attempts, finally came the moment when ByteDance's platform, TikTok disappears from the United States after a legal battle.
Trump popped in to the plane’s press cabin while flying from Las Vegas to Florida, where he was staying at his Doral golf club through Monday evening, though he insisted he’d be too busy to hit the links.
Phones that still have TikTok installed on them are fetching high prices on eBay, days after the social media platform's short-lived ban in the United States. The TikTok app is currently unavailable in the Apple App Store — making it available only to those who previously installed the app before its recent ban.
The popular video app went dark in the United States late Saturday and then came back around noon on Sunday, even as a law banning it took effect.
By Nandita Bose, Dawn Chmielewski, Milana Vinn, Kanishka Singh ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok and would likely have a decision on the popular app's future in the next 30 days.
Coco Gauff said she hopes TikTok "comes back" in the U.S. after the federal ban of the popular app took effect Saturday.