TikTok Ban

The president signed a bill that requires owner ByteDance to either divest itself of the massively popular app or have it removed from American app stores. National security concerns have driven this process forward, but ByteDance still has the right to challenge the action in court and any ban would be instituted no sooner than January 2025.

Should the bill make it all the way through the legislative process in its present form, the TikTok ban would give ByteDance 165 days to find a buyer for the app. If it cannot or will not sell TikTok within that period, the app would then be banned from US app stores.