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TikTok has gone offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect.<\/p>\n
A message appearing on the app for US users said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning “you can’t use TikTok for now”.<\/p>\n
“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office,” it read.<\/p>\n
It comes after the social media platform warned it would “go dark” on Sunday unless the outgoing Biden administration gave assurances the ban will not be enforced. <\/p>\n
President-elect Donald Trump has said he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a ban once he takes office on Monday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Users reported the app had also been removed from both Apple and Google’s US app stores and TikTok.com was not showing videos.<\/p>\n
“The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday. <\/a><\/p>\n “If I decide to do that, I’ll probably announce it on Monday.”<\/p>\n The White House said that it was up to the incoming administration to take action.<\/p>\n “We see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions in the next few days before the Trump administration takes office on Monday,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the law, passed in April last year, banning the app in the US unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, sold the platform by Sunday, which it has not done.<\/p>\n TikTok has argued that the law violates free speech protections for its 170 million users in the country.<\/p>\n After the ruling, TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, appealed to Trump, thanking him for his “commitment to work with us to find a solution.”<\/p>\n Mr Chew is expected to attend Trump’s inauguration on Monday.<\/p>\n