Breaking Down the TikTok Ban: Key Facts

Should no major structural changes occur within TikTok’s ownership, the app will be forced to cease operations in the United States on Jan. 19.

A man holds a phone displaying the TikTok app on Aug. 11, 2024. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times

For years, questions about security have surrounded the popular social media app TikTok because of its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Now, American users are facing a national ban due to the Supreme Court’s Jan. 17 decision to uphold a lower court’s law requiring the parent company, ByteDance, to either divest ownership or shut down in the United States.