President Donald Trump’s decision to issue an executive order Monday delaying enforcement of the federal ban on TikTok has deepened a murky legal landscape in the US for the popular social media app and its technology partners.
TikTok remains unavailable on Google and Apple’s app stores in the U.S. When might it return, and what could happen to TikTok without updates in the meantime? Here's what to know.
With a TikTok ban coming soon, what are the alternatives? Here are 5 similar apps to consider, along with the pros and cons of each.
Meta is offering creators up to $5,000 in bonuses to switch to Facebook and Instagram. The cash incentive depends on the size of their social media footprint and comes days after TikTok went dark in the U.
With the app still unavailable on US app stores, people are betting on TikTok being a profitable added extra to secondhand handsets.
After a US law temporarily forced Americans to find a new home for their short-video habit, TikTok clone Likee saw a surge in usage.
Lemon8 is a video- and photo-sharing platform that eschews the vertical-scrolling format of TikTok in favor of a Pinterest board-style format. But what Lemon8 and TikTok do have in common is both have Following and For You tabs to show you posts from creators you follow and posts the app thinks you will like.
Politicians and the U.S. Government have been scrutinizing and investigating the Chinese-owned app for years citing privacy concerns.
TikTok users in the U.S. flurried to social media platform X to complain that the ByteDance-owned app that went dark late on Jan. 18 was still unavailable to download on Apple and Google’s app stores,
TikTok came back online after Donald Trump promised to delay a law banning it, but its service providers have taken different stances on the ban.