TikTok warned late Friday it is going to go darkish within the United States on Sunday except U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration offers assurances to firms like Apple and Google that they won’t face enforcement actions when a ban takes impact.
The assertion got here hours after the Supreme Court upheld a legislation banning TikTok within the United States on nationwide safety grounds if its Chinese father or mother firm ByteDance doesn’t promote it, placing the favored short-video app on monitor to go darkish in simply two days.
The court docket’s 9-0 determination throws the social media platform — and its 170 million American customers — into limbo, and its destiny within the arms of Donald Trump, who has vowed to rescue TikTok after returning to the presidency on Monday.