To some tech observers, the TikTok fracas speaks to years of Washington misdirection, as Congress theatrically argues over online content while ignoring more straightforward issues that could have staved off the TikTok drama.

TikTok users blamed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for TikTok going dark in the US overnight.

Instead of following the masses to TikTok replicas like RedNote or Lemon8, some users say they would ditch doomscrolling culture for good.

TikTok returned on Sunday for American users after going dark on Saturday night. President-elect Donald Trump says he intends to "save" the platform.

Questions loom over TikTok's future after a U.S. ban went into effect Saturday. Do workarounds like VPNs work? Will it come back? What we know so far.

But a window has been opened for acknowledging that, as a matter of law, protecting human expression is qualitatively different from enabling algorithmic manipulation of human attention. Uncompromising quality.

Just a little over 12 hours later, TikTok was back. A new message congratulated users for their patience, saying, “As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.” A feel-good moment orchestrated by a returning savior leader?

Now that TikTok has been disabled for US users, these rival apps can help you get your fix of short-form video.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump also laid out what he thinks a “qualified divestiture” of TikTok by ByteDance could look like.

Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date,” said Sens. Tom Cotton and

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