TikTok goes offline in the US hours before ban comes in happymamay

TikTok has stopped working in the United States, hours before a new law banning the platform goes into effect.

A message that appeared on the app stated to US users that a law had been enacted banning TikTok, meaning “you cannot use TikTok at this time.”

“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to bring TikTok back once he takes office,” the letter read.

This comes after the social media platform warned that it “will remain dark” on Sunday unless the outgoing Biden administration provides guarantees that the ban will not be implemented.

President-elect Donald Trump said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from the ban once he takes office on Monday.

Users reported that the app was also removed from the Apple and Google app stores in the US, and that TikTok.com did not display videos.

“The 90-day extension is something that will probably be implemented, because it’s appropriate,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday.

“If I decide to do so, I will probably announce it on Monday.”

The White House said it was up to the next administration to take action.

“We see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take action in the next few days before the Trump administration takes office on Monday,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

The Supreme Court ruling on Friday upheld the law, passed in April last year, that bans the app in the US unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, sells the platform by Sunday, which it has not.

TikTok has challenged the law, arguing that it violates free speech protections for its 170 million users in the country.

In the hours before To the social media platform without an internet connectioncontent creators were posting videos to bid farewell to their followers.

Creator Nicole Bloomgarden told the BBC that not using TikTok would result in a significant pay cut.

Another user, Erica Thompson, said educational content on the platform would be the “biggest loss” to the community.

TikTok users were met with a message earlier Saturday saying the law “will force us to make our services temporarily unavailable. We are working to restore our service in the United States as soon as possible.”