Some TikTok users think the algorithm is different now, but did something really change after the short-lived ban of the app in the U.S.?

Three days after ByteDance's TikTok went dark and then was quickly revived in the United States, users who deleted the app were anxiously checking iPhone and Android devices to find it still unavailable to be downloaded again.

The TikTok ban won't be enforced until April, but there will be plenty of contentious negotiations between China, the U.S., and prospective buyers in the meantime.

An executive order is an instruction from the president which has the weight of the law behind it. But Trump's order does not overturn the ban. Instead it tells the US attorney general not to enforce the law for now - something experts had expected would be his first move.

It's unclear if Trump has the authority to direct the Justice Department to not enforce the law, which was passed by wide margins in both ho