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Welcome to the inquiry from the BBC World Service with me, David Baker.
Each week, one question, four expert witnesses, and an answer.
It's the 19th of January, 2025, the day before Donald Trump's second inauguration,
and the popular video-sharing app TikTok has just gone dark for its 170 million US users.
Millions of Americans are waking up this morning to a TikTok app where you can't scroll or post and said all you see is a message that it's unavailable This is because of a political standoff that began more than nine months before.
In April 2024, the US Congress passed a law giving ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese owner, a choice.
Sell its US operations to an American buyer or face a ban.
The law passed with rare bipartisan support over concerns about Chinese influence and data security.
ByteDance failed to meet the US demands and the app went offline.