Canadian TikTok users may have noticed on Sunday a lack of new content from American creators as the app went dark in the United States – but later started to reappear.
TikTok said Sunday it was restoring service to U.S. users after president-elect Donald Trump said he would try to pause a court-ordered ban on the platform with an executive order on his first day in office.
Trump said his order would give the app’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it had unanimously upheld a federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless the platform is sold by ByteDance.
U.S. users started receiving late Saturday a message in the app about the ban, saying they can’t use the platform “for now,” but some of them reported the app was working again on Sunday afternoon.
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However, TikTok remained unavailable …