Social media users are speculating that Meta has bought TikTok, following Donald Trump's announcement that he planned to delay a ban on the app.

TikTok users blamed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for TikTok going dark in the US overnight.

The Chinese social media app, popular in the United States a week after being flooded by TikTok users, has added language translation features.

Trump has expressed interest in a joint venture that could keep TikTok operational over the long haul. For now, the app is back online.

Questions loom over TikTok's future after a U.S. ban went into effect Saturday. Do workarounds like VPNs work? Will it come back? What we know so far.

With a possible ban looming for the popular short-form video app, these stocks are set to gain as companies look to capture TikTok users' screen time.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Ames Doyle began using TikTok in 2022, they were living a drastically different life. Doyle, now 35, had a child with their husband, identified as a woman, dependably voted Democrat and assumed they were neurotypical. Then they started scrolling.

In the "TikTokCringe" subreddit, a video from a RedNote user with red eyes, presumably swollen from tears, suggested that Americans had possibly ruined the app for Chinese Americans who rely on RedNote to stay current on Chinese news and culture.

After briefly ‘going dark’, TikTok has returned to the screens of users in the US. But the situation remains slippery.

The decision came a week after the justices heard a First Amendment challenge to a law aimed at the wildly popular short-form video platform used by 170 million Americans that the government fears could be influenced by China.

TikTok’s rapid rise, alongside the growth of Amazon, has presented a real challenge to Meta and Google. If TikTok is banned, more than half of the advertising dollars spent on the platform in the US w