By Sheila Dang and Jaspreet Singh
(Reuters) -TikTok stopped working for 170 million Americans late on Saturday after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled against TikTok’s bid to avoid a ban that could shut the app down.Â
The ban is the end result of 2024 legislation passed on national security concerns that called for TikTok parent ByteDance to sell the popular short-video app or see it shut in the United States on Jan. 19.
It remained unclear how long the ban would stay in place as President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Monday, has said he would try to find a “political resolution” of the issue to keep the app operating in the United States.Â
On Sunday, Trump said on Truth Social: “SAVE TIKTOK!”Â
Here is what is happening now.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE APP?
New users will not be able to download TikTok from Apple (NASDAQ:) and Google (NASDAQ:) app stores and existing users will not be able to update the app, because the…
