TikTok will be ‘temporarily unavailable’ in the US starting tonight

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images TikTok is officially going dark in the United States now that a federal ban on the app is set to go into effect on January 19th. Around 6 PM Pacific time, the app began notifying people in the US, including Verge staffers, with a message that said the ban would “make our services temporarily unavailable.” The message goes on to say, “We’re working to restore our service in the US as quickly as possible,” an outcome that