The fate of TikTok seems to be sealed for the moment. The Biden administration firmly announced the social media giant would have to look to the Trump administration for help after tomorrow’s ban likely will see the app go dark.

The app’s availability in the U.S. has been thrown into jeopardy over data privacy and national security concerns.

If lawmakers continue to prioritize politically expedient anti-China bans, then they will fail to convince the public they are acting in its best interests.

TikTok is officially down, as of Saturday, Jan. 18, only hours before the law that bans TikTok from being distributed in the United States was set to go into effect.

NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok’s app was removed from prominent app stores on Saturday just before a federal law that would have banned the popular social media platform was scheduled to go into effect.

Challenges came in tandem with TikTok’s success. U.S. officials expressed concerns about the company’s roots and ownership, pointing to laws in China that require Chinese companies to hand over data requested by the government. Another concern became the proprietary algorithm that populates what users see on the app.

This looming TikTok ban has over 170 million US TikTok users (who have named themselves "TikTok Refugees") scrambling for a replacement app. And that's what these users have seemingly found in Xiaohongshu or RedNote — a Chinese-owned social media app that has already risen to #1 on the US App Store.

Users in the U.S. who opened the app Saturday night were greeted with a message with the headline, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now.”

TikTok shut down in the U.S. over a law banning the app Jan. 19 in the absence of a divestiture by parent ByteDance. Here's what could happen next.

The app’s availability in the U.S. has been thrown into jeopardy over data privacy and national security concerns.