Citing national security concerns, the Trump administration announced September 18 that it was banning both TikTok and WeChat from mobile app stores starting Sunday, with further usage bans to come. While that date came and went without any impact on the apps’ accessibility in the U.S. (TikTok was, at least momentarily, saved by its recent efforts at an American ownership deal, and a federal judge issued a temporary injunctionagainst the WeChat ban), the issue is hardly resolved. The TikTok ownership deal is far from final, and the U.S. government is awaiting a court decision this weekend after opposing TikTok’s injunction request.
