Efforts to ban TikTok in the United States
Federal-government-imposed ban
Efforts to ban TikTok in the United States
The short-form video-hosting service TikTok was under a de jure nationwide ban in the United States from January 19, 2025, until January 22, 2025, due to the U.S. government's concerns over potential user data collection and influence operations by the government of the People's Republic of China. However, the ban was not enforced. The ban took effect after ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, refused to sell the service before the deadline of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA). Prior to the ban, individual states, cities, universities, and government-affiliated devices had restricted TikTok. In 2020, President Donald Trump proposed a ban of TikTok, describing it as a potential national security risk. In August, he signed an executive order instructing ByteDance to divest from the app, but a court blocked the order with an injunction in September. The Biden administration later reversed the order in 2021. In 2024, as lawmakers...
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