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Tech Tuesday: TikTok's takedown and comeback

The TikTok App logo is shown on a black phone being held in someone's hand.
Allie Vugrincic
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WOSU
TikTok is set to be banned in the United States on Sunday is the company is not sold by owner ByteDance. Many influencers in Ohio and around the country are grappling with what they will do once the app is no longer supported by U.S. app stores.

The widely popular TikTok app went dark just before midnight Sunday, but it was a brief outage.

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