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TikTok Returns to Apple, Google App Stores
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variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Apple‘s App Store and the Google Play store have restored TikTok for U.S. users as of Thursday, after they had removed it on Jan.
19. The tech giants had pulled TikTok because of a federal law effectively banning it as of Jan. 19 because Chinese parent ByteDance had not divested its stake in TikTok.
Penalties for violating the law by hosting or distributing TikTok in the U.S. are $5,000 per user, or as much as $850 billion in penalties (given TikTok’s claim it has 170 million U.S.
users). As such, both Apple and Google had removed the app. On Jan. 20, President Trump signed an executive order instructing the U.S.
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