TikTok ban

US president-elect Donald Trump revealed his plan to temporarily block a nationwide ban on TikTok in January 2025, hours after the short-video app went dark to comply with a federal law. Over the past few years, efforts have been made in several countries to bar its use. Owned by Chinese company ByteDance, the social platform has been accused by foreign critics of posing a national security threat, a claim that TikTok has consistently denied. In June 2020, India banned TikTok, followed by a temporary block by Pakistan in October of the same year.