NEW YORK — TikTok's app was removed from prominent app stores on Saturday evening just before as a federal law that bans the popular social media platform went into effect.
By 10:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the app was not found on Apple and Google's app stores, which are prohibited from offering the platform under a law that required TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a US ban.