Users in the U.S. who opened the app were greeted with a message that read, 'Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now.'
Washington — TikTok voluntarily shut down service in the U.S. just hours before a Sunday deadline, cutting off access to tens of millions of users after the Supreme Court this week upheld a law that effectively banned it over concerns about its ties to China.The law passed by Congress last year gave TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance until Jan. 19 to divest from TikTok or be cut off from U.S. app stores and hosting services.
He said the company's inability to share any user data with ByteDance under the law would cut off American users from viewing content from other parts of the world and vice versa. The bipartisan law was tucked into a foreign assistance package that swiftly passed Congress and was signed by President Biden last April.
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