TikTok Ban live: Updates as the social media platform hangs in the balance
The end is nigh for TikTok…or is it? The ultra-popular social media platform stands on the precipice of a US ban that would wipe it from app stores and quickly make it inoperable on iPhones and Androids. 150 million users could lose access to audiences around the world and five million TikTok businesses could vaporize in an instant. But it’s not that cut and dried. Last-minute saviors could arise, even in the form of those who first sought to banish the Chinese-owned app. A little background here before we dive into the minute-by-minute machinations that hold TikTok’s future in the balance. TikTok is a nearly decade-old social media platform that, in the US, started its life as Music.ly and was primarily a lip-syncing app (people made videos dancing and lip-syncing to their favorite pop songs). The app was bought by ByteDance, a Chinese software company, which quickly combined it with its own social media app and renamed […]
