TikTok says it’s going offline in the US

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok says it is officially going dark in the United States now that a federal ban of the app is going into effect. Around 6 PM Pacific time, the app began notifying people in the US, including Verge staffers, with a message that says the ban will “make our services temporarily unavailable.”
The company warned on Friday that it would be forced to go dark if the Biden administration didn’t give assurances to its service providers,