Trump’s first Presidential decree: Bring back the TikTok dances!

Nathan Jolly

January 20, 2025 9:53

TikTok is back online in the US, after 170 million Americans were briefly locked out of the social media platform on Saturday evening, in line with a government-issued shutdown notice.

US Congress passed a law last April that ordered TikTok’s Chinese owners ByteDance to either divest the platform, or get banned in the US.

TikTok went down on Saturday night, to comply with a Sunday deadline for its shutdown, however was back online within 24 hours.

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Nathan Jolly

Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.

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Donald Trump TikTok Truth Social

2 COMMENTS

Anonymous 20 Jan 25

1. Create a problem
2. Been seen to resolve the problem…

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Yuge 20 Jan 25

Biden said he wouldn’t enforce the ban, so the shutdown was unnecessary.

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Trump’s first Presidential decree: Bring back the TikTok dances!

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