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Joe Lancaster

TikTok Is Back Online as Trump Proposes Nationalizing It

Just hours after going dark, TikTok is back online—though nothing, legally, has changed.

Just after midnight on Sunday, the popular but maligned Chinese-owned app ceased operation in the United States; users logging on received a message that the service "isn't available right now" but "we are fortunate that President [Donald] Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office."

As it turned out, they didn't even have to wait for Trump's inauguration on Monday.

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