Is TikTok Really Worth Saving?
Starting on Sunday, January 19, any American who wants to turn off their brain and scroll through TikTok, the social media app that has feasted on the country’s attention span for years, will either be blocked from doing so, will find the service works sporadically, or if it does continue to work, new users will be unable to download TikTok from app stores, as it will no longer available in the United States. After years of debate over the fate of the Chinese-made social media app, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ban on Friday requiring TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, to sell the company by the end of the coming weekend, or the platform will be outlawed in the United States indefinitely. President Joe Biden has said he will not intervene with the decision and instead will leave the fate ...