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Man torches congressman’s district office over TikTok ban: police

Police in Wisconsin are investigating after a man set fire to a congressman's district office after the popular social media app TikTok briefly went out of service, authorities said. The Fond du Lac Police Department announced that a 19-year-old Menasha resident has admitted to setting fire to office space rented to U.S. Congressman Glenn Grossman. […]

TikTok Restores Services After Trump Says He Will Delay Ban

TikTok has restarted its service in the United States after President-elect Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order delaying the ban on the app. in post On X, TikTok released a statement saying it was “restoring service” “in accordance with agreements” with service providers. TikTok said, “We are proceeding with service restoration efforts based […]

Teen sets fire to congressman’s office in fit of rage over TikTok ban

A Wisconsin teen set fire to the office of a local Republican lawmaker on Sunday, angry over the ban on TikTok, authorities said. The Fond du Lac office used by U.S. Rep. Glenn Grossman was set on fire shortly after 1 a.m., and authorities found a 19-year-old man nearby who admitted to starting the fire. […]

TikTok Goes Dark for Americans Hours Before Ban Takes Place

TikTok users in the United States faced a message on Sunday that the app would be unavailable and unusable, hours before the ban went into effect. When users in the U.S. open the social media app, a message pops up saying, “We're sorry, TikTok is currently unavailable.” The message further explains that Americans cannot use […]

Why VPN does not get around US TikTok ban

Since the popular social app was shut down, dejected American TikTokers have been looking around for a fix and struggling to avoid a ban. Users on Sunday were just starting to notice that the Chinese-owned app remained dark even when using a VPN. Virtual private networks can trick websites and apps into thinking you are […]

TikTok users freak out as ban shuts down app for 170M users in US

Heartbroken TikTokers are going cuckoo. Users of the now-defunct social app across the U.S. mourned its loss early Sunday after the app was shut down for its 170 million U.S. users in the face of a U.S. legal ban. There is. “It’s gone TIKTOK is gone”, one. User posted on X With a GIF of […]

TikTok goes dark in the US ahead of ban | Technology

TikTok suspended its service in the United States late Saturday, just before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short video app went into effect. This app is no longer available on Apple's iOS App Store or Google's Play Store. In April, the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok to […]

Hours before US ban, TikTok says users will see ‘temporary’ halt in service

Pete Packal, technology analyst and founder of The Media Copilot, joins Mornings with Maria to discuss President-elect Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court to end the ban on TikTok. Discuss the administration's focus on AI in its second term. Hours before the U.S. ban on TikTok went into effect, TikTok released a statement on its […]