Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United States was set to take effect, the social media app went dark, and US users could no longer access videos on the platform. Instead, the app greeted them with a message that said “a law banning TikTok has been enacted.”

WASHINGTON - TikTok says it will “go dark” in the United States on Sunday, threatening access to the app for 170 million users, unless the government provides assurances that a law mandating its sale or ban won’t be used to punish service providers.

During his first term, Trump attempted to ban TikTok but faced legal hurdles. This time, however, he has asked the US Supreme Court to freeze the law’s enforcement until he is back in the White House, vowing to “save TikTok” as part of his campaign promises.

One alternative for TikTok would be to move its existing US customers over to a similar app — with different branding — to potentially sidestep the ban, one of the people said. It’s not ...

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TikTok indicated as much in a memo to staff, cited in the Verge on Tuesday. "Our offices will remain open" regardless of what happens on January 19th and employees will keep their jobs.

winging its way from Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport to Phuket. One passenger’s quick-thinking video capture shows the offbeat antics, with one man brazenly puffing away and… A foreign woman took to TikTok to accuse a Subway store at ...

Temperatures in Bangkok fell as low as 59.3 degrees Fahrenheit (15.2 degrees Celsius) on Monday, the lowest the capital has seen in years, as the country’s weather agency warned cool conditions ...

It had all the hallmarks of a cold-blooded, professional assassination. Next to a well-known temple in Bangkok's historic royal quarter a man is seen on a security camera video parking his ...

Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready to welcome TikTok users, as the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app from the United States.

The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has shut down more than 70,000 illegal online postings for jobs overseas on Facebook and TikTok, saving potentially thousands of