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A series following the latest occurrences and news regarding the TikTok Ban in the United States. This series features the latest developments about the TikTok app ban and users’ complaints of censorship following the app’s restoration.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/label>\n\n\t\t\t

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  1. US Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban Citing National Security Concerns<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
  2. TikTok ‘Goes Dark’: TikTok App Taken Down in the US Plus How to Regain Access<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
  3. Facebook Wants to Pay You $50,000 a Month to Quit TikTok<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
  4. Unveiling TikTok’s Alleged Anti-Trump Censorship \u2013 What Users Need to Know<\/span><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

    Following TikTok\u2019s ban and the subsequent resumption of service in the United States, users are now raising concerns that the return of TikTok could be one laced with a conspiracy to undertake targeted political censorship<\/a>. TikTok users in the US have reported that they are seeing anti-Trump censorship on the popular social media app. Let\u2019s look at these concerns, coming shortly after the TikTok app was restored in the US.<\/p>\n

    Why Did TikTok Get Banned Early?<\/h2>\n

    Following a Supreme Court decision upholding the ban<\/a> of the popular TikTok app on the basis of national security concerns, the platform\u2019s parent company, Chinese tech juggernaut ByteDance, decided to shut down the app earlier than the set 20th January 2025 deadline.<\/p>\n

    The US government had given ByteDance an ultimatum: sell the platform\u2019s US operations to an American company\/owner by the 20th of January, or the app would be legally banned from operating in the US.<\/p>\n

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    An image showing the TikTok logo alongside the logo of TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance. The US government has been trying to compel the company to sell TikTok to a US entity out of national security concerns. Source: CKGSB.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Two days before the ban<\/a> would take effect, however, and after the Supreme Court ruling that struck down a push to prevent the ban, ByteDance defaced the app and effectively shut it down for its US users. The company, however, expressed optimism that recently elected US President, Donald Trump, would help them get the platform unbanned.<\/p>\n

    Related: TikTok \u2018Goes Dark\u2019: TikTok App Taken Down in the US, Plus How to Regain Access<\/a><\/p>\n

    Why Did TikTok Get Unbanned?<\/h2>\n

    A short while before the day of his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States, then President-elect Trump shared that he would find a solution and vowed to extend the ultimatum for the sale of TikTok for 90 days. Following Trump\u2019s remarks, ByteDance announced that it was working to restore TikTok, just a day after it had been taken down.<\/p>\n

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    @tiktok<\/a>Our response to the Supreme Court decision.\u266c original sound – TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n