Video-sharing app, TikTok has gone offline in the United States, US.
This is coming hours before a new law banning the platform was due to take effect.
A message displaying on the platform for US users said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning “you can’t use TikTok for now”.
Users reported the app had also been removed from both Apple and Google’s US app stores and TikTok.com was not showing videos.
The social media platform was banned over concerns about its links to the Chinese government and had been given a deadline of 19 January to be sold to an approved US buyer.
President Joe Biden had said he would leave the issue to his successor, Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Trump has stated that he will most likely give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a ban once he takes office on Monday.
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the law, passed in April last year, banning the app in the US unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, sold the platform by Sunday (Today), which it has not done.
