Less than three weeks before the presidential election, TikTok is still struggling to consistently enforce its long-standing ban on political advertising, a new report finds.

In January, TikTok took itself offline for about 14 hours — and app stores removed access to the platform in the United States — after the law’s initial sale-or-ban deadline passed with no deal.

“I’d like to see TikTok remain alive.” Here’s what we know about what TikTok’s future could look like as the sale-or-ban deadline fast approaches. How did we get here?

A law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a total US ban was upheld in US appeals court on Friday – setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown ...

How TikTok can still avoid a ban, according to experts Ban is set to take effect this week, unless TikTok cuts ties with parent firm.

After lawyers for TikTok defended the app to the Supreme Court and received a skeptical reception, it seems that there are only a few pathways left for the app.

First, TikTok scoops up data on its 170 million monthly users in the U.S., which could potentially be used to track federal employees or to conduct blackmail or corporate espionage.

Will TikTok be sold? The question has been asked before, during Trump's first term. But now, the situation has changed considerably.

That’s despite the platform’s ban on all political ads in place since 2019. The ads never appeared on TikTok because Global Witness pulled them before they went online.

An app just for U.S. users, which looks set to run on an algorithm and data system that’s separate from TikTok’s global platform, would pave the way for a possible sale.