TikTok restored service in the United States Sunday (Jan 19) after briefly going dark, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds came into effect.
In its statement, TikTok expressed gratitude to US President-elect Donald Trump for providing clarity and assurance to service providers, ensuring they would not face penalties for supporting the platform.
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In its statement, TikTok expressed gratitude to US President-elect Donald Trump for providing clarity and assurance to service providers, ensuring they would not face penalties for supporting the platform.
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00:00TikTok announced on Sunday that its services in the United States were being restored,
00:07less than 24 hours after being suspended.
00:10The announcement followed President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to reinstate the app's
00:14access in the U.S. upon his return to office on Monday.
00:18TikTok confirmed that its website was now accessible to U.S. users, although some reported
00:24that the app itself was not yet fully operational.
00:27In its statement, TikTok expressed gratitude to Trump for providing clarity and assurance
00:32to service providers, ensuring they would not face penalties for supporting the platform.
00:38The company highlighted its role in serving over 170 million Americans and supporting
00:43more than 7 million small businesses.
00:46The suspension occurred late Saturday, ahead of the implementation of a national security
00:51law intended to ban the platform on Sunday.
00:55U.S. officials had raised concerns that TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, posed a
01:00risk of Americans' data being misused.