TikTok was officially banned Sunday morning, but did Trump save it? Here’s where things stand WSOC TV [Video]

The popular social media app TikTok went dark for its 170 million American users on Jan. 19, after months of fighting the federal government’s demand that it separate from its China-based parent company, ByteDance.

Even hours before midnight struck on the East Coast, users were experiencing pop-ups while watching videos on the app, warning them “a U.S. law banning Tiktok will take effect on January 19 and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable.”

Hours later, users could not scroll, watch or post videos and received messages stating that “TikTok isn’t available right now” but that the app is “fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office.”

By Sunday afternoon, however, many users were able to access TikTok videos once again without experiencing any pop-up warnings or following hacksto circumvent the ban, such as downloading a …