TikTok creators fear economic blow of US ban

Mari Juliette, the owner of Mari Juliette Real Estate, uses her phone to give a TikTok tour of a condo she is selling on April 26, 2024, in Miami, Florida. Mari said she probably would not have been as successful in the real estate business without utilising TikTok to feature properties. – AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Ayman Chaudhary turned her love for reading into a living on TikTok, posting video snippets about books like those banned in schools in ultra-conservative parts of the United States.

Now the online platform she relies on to support her family is poised to be banned in what entrepreneurs using TikTok condemn as an attack on their livelihoods.