LThe social network TikTok announced it itself. Without action from the American government, it will be “forced to disappear” on Sunday January 19 at midnight local time, she explained in a press release released Friday evening. The ban, put in place as part of a law signed by President Joe Biden last April, would mark the first U.S. shutdown of a major social network.
Our response to the Supreme Court decision:https://t.co/xSkvkOgpuV
— TikTok Policy (@TikTokPolicy)
To address national security concerns, TikTok, which claims about 170 million American users and an estimated revenue of $20 billion in 2025, will be banned in the United States unless its parent company, ByteDance, does not sell the American activity of the social network to a neutral actor. This decision of the Supreme Court validated Friday which, without intervention from the authorities, suggests an imminent end for the platform.
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While many influencers posted videos to say goodbye to their subscribers, this threat pushed users, mainly young people, to look for an alternative, for example by registering on the Chinese social network RedNote. Other competitors like Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) and Snapchat have seen their shares increase in value on financial markets in anticipation of the arrival of new users. […] Read more
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