TikTok is back online in the U.S., following Trump's promise to pause the ban

Axios - TIkTok's 170 million users started receiving a "services temporarily unavailable" notice late last night as a law to ban the app was set to take effect at midnight. It's the first time the U.S. has banned a major online platform of this scale....

President-elect Trump could decide to extend the deadline by 90 days, but he'd have to show that legally binding negotiations for a sale of TikTok to U.S. owners are underway. "The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it's appropriate," Trump told NBC News' "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker yesterday...Trump could also issue an executive order or ask his attorney general not to enforce the law.

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