TikTok and WeChat Downloads Will be Banned in U.S.

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Starting Monday, TikTok and WeChat will be banned from app stores, senior Commerce Department officials said. Users will not be able to download the apps to their phones, and those who have them already installed will not be able to receive updates.The government is also banning U.S.

entities from hosting data for WeChat and from sending money or processing payments using the app. That rule makes the app essentially unusable in the U.S., because it bars U.S.-based internet service providers from interacting with the app.«For all practical purposes it will be shut down in the U.S., but only in the U.S., as of midnight on Monday,» Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Fox Business News on Friday.TikTok vowed to challenge the ban, which it.