Tiktok has been banned in the US – NY TIMES

The popular social media app Tiktok has been banned in the United States. Joe Biden believed that the servers run by China was taking user data, and after a legislation vote, it has been ruled to be banned.

TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service owned by Chinese company ByteDance. The social media platform is used to make a variety of short-form videos, from genres like dance, comedy, and education, that have a duration from 15 seconds to one minute (three minutes for some users).TikTok is an international version of Douyin, which was originally released in the Chinese market in September 2016.Later, TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018.