TikTok ban

People hold signs in support of TikTok outside the U.S. Capitol Building on March 13.

This senator tells NPR why he's leading a charge against TikTok — and what comes next

4:33pm March 19, 2024

The House has voted overwhelmingly to ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don't sell it. So now the future of the wildly popular social media platform is in the hands of the Senate.

President Biden waves as he arrives at the White House on March 9, 2023.

Politics & Government

President Biden would ban TikTok. But candidate Biden is using it for his campaign

5:11pm March 06, 2024

by Deepa Shivaram

The White House supports a bipartisan bill that would ban TikTok unless its Chinese parent company sells it. It's a popular app with young voters, who the Biden campaign is working to woo.

The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone on Feb. 28. British authorities said Thursday that they are banning the Chinese-owned app from government mobile phones on security grounds.

World News

The U.K. is the latest to ban TikTok on government phones because of security concerns

11:57am March 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

British authorities said they are banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from government mobile phones following similar moves by the U.S. and European Union.

TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a government spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app.

Congress is about to ban TikTok from U.S. government phones

9:47pm December 20, 2022

by Bobby Allyn

A ban on Chinese-owned TikTok for government devices is in a new spending bill. It will not affect most of the 100 million U.S. users of the app, but it is a major anti-TikTok escalation by the U.S.

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It Was Set To Start

11:20pm September 27, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

The decision grants TikTok a short-term reprieve, but the wildly popular app's fate still faces an extraordinary amount of uncertainty.

TikTok: Even A Temporary Ban Could Make 90% Of Users Quit The App

6:19pm September 23, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

Lawyers for popular video app TikTok are asking a federal judge to block President Trump's order banning the app from taking effect on Sunday.

Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing. President Trump said he does not plan to support any deal to save TikTok in the U.S. that keeps China-based ByteDance as its majority owner.

Trump Casts New Doubt On Any Deal To Keep TikTok Alive In U.S.

1:41am September 17, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

Trump also said he's been advised "there is no legal path" for the U.S. to keep a cut of whatever TikTok deal the government approves, an idea he had earlier floated.

The view outside the Chinese technology company ByteDance in Beijing in August 2020. Trump's executive order outlaws transactions between U.S. citizens and ByteDance. American instructors who work for ByteDance subsidiary GOGOKID said they feel like their

They Teach Chinese Kids English Online. Now They're Caught In Trump's War On TikTok

11:17pm September 03, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

ByteDance-owned tutoring app GOGOKID employes about 4,000 American teachers. Trump's crack down on TikTok could mean those instructors will lose their jobs.

TikTok has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration after the White House issued an executive order that would effectively ban the hugely popular app from operating in the United States.

TikTok Sues Trump To Block U.S. Ban

6:29pm August 24, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

The White House has targeted the Chinese-owned app with an executive order that would effectively ban it from operating in the U.S. Lawyers for TikTok say the president's action is unconstitutional.

President Trump's executive order prohibits transactions between U.S. citizens and TikTok's parent company starting in 45 days.

National

TikTok To Sue Trump Administration Over Ban, As Soon As Tuesday

5:09pm August 08, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

Lawyers for the video-sharing app are likely to say the executive order was unconstitutional, arguing the company was not informed, as is standard, and the national-security concerns are baseless.