Tiktok

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols has granted a preliminary injunction to TikTok, temporarily blocking a ban on new downloads from Apple and Google’s app stores in the country.

Are TikTok and WeChat really being banned? When does all of this take effect? Will I still be able to use these apps? All this and more answered in our FAQ regarding the latest U.S. orders.

The U.S. government has insisted that the TikTok ban must proceed in a court filing against a proposed motion that would stop the move.

A judge has told the Trump administration it must either postpone its U.S. ban on TikTok or respond to a court by Friday in defence of the move.

TikTok has asked a judge to prevent the Trump administration from banning the app in the U.S., the ban was recently delayed by a week after a deal was signed between Oracle and ByteDance.

TikTok has today proposed the formation of a coalition of social media and platforms seeking to protect users from harmful content such as suicide.

The Trump administration's ban on WeChat was set to go into effect today, but a U.S. district court judge just blocked it.

TikTok lobbyists have told the Trump campaign an all-out ban on the app could cost him millions of votes in November's presidential election, particularly in key battleground states.

The U.S. Department of Commerce will ban TikTok and WeChat from U.S app stores from Sunday.