TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below.
TikTok disappeared for a portion of the weekend, following a Supreme Court decision that upheld a 2024 federal law requiring the app to cease operations in the US unless it was sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance. TikTok is gradually resuming service in the US, but it has an unclear road ahead.
Several other ByteDance-owned apps went offline along with it, including the popular video editing app CapCut. With the app's fate now in limbo, many content creators have been left scrambling for alternatives while the future of their digital workflows remains up in the air.
The Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok, requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to American owners or shut it down by Sunday.
The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that could force TikTok to shut down in the United States, potentially cutting off the app's 170 million users within days. The Department of Justice noted that enforcing the law "will be a process that plays out over time,
President-elect Donald Trump plans to issue an executive order granting TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, additional time to find an approved buyer for its US operations. The federal law requiring the app's sale has led to its removal from app stores,
TikTok officially went dark for users of the popular social media late Saturday night, just a few hours before a ban was set to take effect.
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The possibility of the U.S. outlawing TikTok kept influencers and users in anxious limbo during the four-plus years that lawmakers and judges debated the fate of the video-sharing app. Now, the moment its fans dreaded is here , but uncertainty over TikTok’s future lingers.
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives estimates TikTok is worth “well north of $US100 billion ($161 billion)” with the algorithm — and potentially up to $US200 billion in a “best-case scenario”. “Without the algorithm, it’s $US40 billion to $US50 billion,” Ives said. He did not believe ByteDance and Beijing would sell TikTok with the algorithm.
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