Biden signed the law (which targets tech companies owned by companies in countries deemed a “foreign adversary” of the United States) back in April of 2024, and god knows if he realized at the time what setting its enforcement measures to kick in a day before the next inauguration was going to do,

TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans.

TikTok became unavailable to U.S. users over the weekend as a government ban over national security concerns took effect. While TikTok was the highest profile app impact by the ban, other apps from developer ByteDance also were affected.

President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to issue an executive order that would give TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the popular video-sharing platform is subject to a permanent ban in the US.

A bipartisan bill banning TikTok was passed by Congress and signed into law by Biden last year. While Trump previously called for a ban on the app due to its ties to the Chinese government, he has more recently been opposed to the ban and indicated that he will seek to reverse it.

A ban on the popular app is set to start Sunday, although the Supreme Court could rule anytime on whether to uphold it.

U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.

The Biden administration doesn't plan to take action that forces TikTok to immediately go dark for U.S. users on Sunday, an administration official told ABC News.

When users tried using the app, a message appeared on their screen that read, "A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the US. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now," reported AFP news agency.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is spending the eve of his inauguration in a series of Washington events that celebrate his return to power and his “Make America Great Again” movement as he prepares to move back into the White House at a time of deep national political divisions.

TikTok stopped working for its 170 million American users late on Saturday before a law shutting it down on national security grounds took effect on Sunday, but a day before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump said "SAVE TIKTOK!