After briefly disappearing, TikTok went back to normal. Or did it?


TikTok's future is in limbo as another deadline looms. For some users, nothing has been the same since those 14 hours in January anyway. — AFP

There were jokes. There was despair. There were eulogies and fake funerals.

For about half a day in January, as a Supreme Court ruling banning TikTok took effect, some 170 million Americans were forced to grapple with the reality of a world without the app.

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