Background
This Chinese Technology Company owns TikTok.
What is ByteDance?
This highest U.S. court upheld a law requiring TikTok to sell or face a ban.
What is the Supreme Court?
This country, along with France, Canada, and 11 others, banned TikTok from government devices in March 2023.
What is the U.S.?
This global event significantly boosted TikTok's growth as people turned to their phones for entertainment.
What is the COVID-19 lockdown/pandemic?
This ethical concern arises when TikTok influencers don't disclose paid content.
What are undisclosed advertisements?
The country where TikTok's parent company is headquartered.
What is China?
The other Chinese companies have been scrutinized.
What are Shein and Temu?
In March 2025, this European country implemented a one-year ban on TikTok after a case involving violence among children.
What is Albania?
TikTok has been credited with turning ordinary people into this type of social media personality "overnight."
What are influencers?
This U.S Government Agency is responsible for enforcing advertisement regulations.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
The type of company ByteDance is classified as.
What is a tech company?
This is how long Trump delayed the TikTok ban for.
What is 90 days?
This country fined TikTok in July 2024 for failing to remove prohibited content.
What is Russia?
TikTok has uniquely shown this type of content from around the world, including protests and war zones.
What is unfiltered reality?
Unlike the US version, China's Douyin provides this type of content for children.
What is mandatory educational content?
The original app released in September 2016 for the Chinese market before the international version was launched.
What is Douyin?
These two neighboring South Asian countries both implemented full bans on TikTok.
What are India and Nepal?
This is how much did TikTok got fined for.
What is $16 million?
Many young people use TikTok as this type of tool, replacing traditional search engines.
What is Google/a search engine?
This is a right many argue the TikTok ban infringes upon.
What is 1st Amendment Right/free speech?
The platform ByteDance acquired and merged with TikTok to create its current form.
What is Musical.ly?
The two countries that have implemented fines and forced partnerships rather than outright bans.
What is Indonesia + Russia?
This is the New deadline before TikTok is banned.
What is June 19th?
This is the amount of downloads TikTok had worldwide by June 2020.
What is 2 billion?
This Country Offers optional safeguards for children on TikTok.
What is The United States?