The Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a law that would ban TikTok for the 170 million people who use the app in the U.S. If the court upholds the law, as other courts have done, the ban will go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19.

The ban would go into effect Sunday, pending a Supreme Court decision that is expected to come soon (but it sure looks like America’s highest court will keep the law that bans TikTok in place). TikTok’s owner,

As self-described "TikTok refugees" pour onto the Chinese social media app RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, some foreign netizens are already running up against the country's extensive censorship apparatus.

Are you keeping up with the pending TikTok shutdown? News of the ban first came in March 2024, when U.S. President Joe Biden told TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to sell TikTok to a buyer in the United States or face a ban in the United States.

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popu

As a last resort, the platform is preparing for a total shutdown Sunday, the day a U.S. ban is set to go into effect if the Supreme Court doesn’t overrule it.

TikTok may be banned in the US on January 19, a day before the inauguration, if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, doesn't sell the app.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday as the company confronts a new law with a looming deadline requiring it to sell to a non-Chinese firm or stop operating in the United States,

The federal ban on TikTok is set to take effect Sunday unless the Supreme Court steps in to stop it, and while reports Wednesday suggest President-elect Donald Trump is mulling an executive order that would quickly reinstate the app, he may have limited options should the law be upheld—and his attempts to stop it could be challenged in court.

The move is under discussion as the Chinese-owned app faces a Sunday deadline to find a new buyer or shut down in the United States.

President-elect Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order to try to save TikTok as the deadline nears that could see the platform banned.