TikTok was not available for many of its 170 million users in the U.S. hours before a ban on the social media platform was supposed to go into effect.

App executives had discussed taking the platform offline on Sunday to highlight the impact of the restriction, but the plans had not been final.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order that would give the China-based parent company of the popular video-sharing platform TikTok more time to find an approved buyer

President-elect Donald Trump says he “most likely” will give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban

The president-elect Sunday pledged an executive order, hours into his second term, returning access for American users, at least temporarily.

TikTok faces U.S. ban on Jan. 19, leaving 170M users scrambling for alternatives amid national security concerns and data privacy debates.

TikTok is set to be banned in the US on 19 January after the Supreme Court denied a last ditch legal bid from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. It found the law banning the social media platform did not violate the first amendment rights of TikTok and its 170 million users,

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that social media platform TikTok must either be sold to an American company, or shutdown operations within the U.S. But what does that mean for Minnesotans who use the app for income?