China’s TikTok is reportedly preparing to shut down its app down for American users on Sunday, when the U.S. sell-or-ban law is set to go into effect.
As Breitbart News reported, the sell-or-ban law requires TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, to divest its stake in the app or else be banned in the United States on January 19. The Chinese app now faces a ban this Sunday, as ByteDance never sold its stake.
The U.S. sell-or-ban legislation, however, requires that new downloads of the TikTok app to be banned on Apple and Google, while existing accounts on the Chinese app an stay for some time, according to a report by Reuters.
But the TikTok shutdown won’t look like that, according to sources familiar with the matter, who told Reuters that the Chinese company plans to make it so U.S. users trying to open the app will receive a pop-up message directing them to…
