Here’s what happened when India banned TikTok | PBS News
Apr 24, 2024 · In June 2020, TikTok users in India bid goodbye to the app, which is operated by Chinese internet firm ByteDance. New Delhi had suddenly banned the popular app, alongside …
What Happened When India Banned TikTok in 2020 - TIME
Jan 18, 2025 · But TikTok actually faced an even bigger exodus of users in 2020, when India banned the app. At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with …
India banned TikTok overnight but 200 million people learned to …
Mar 14, 2024 · India's content creators learned to survive and thrive without TikTok. As TikTok fans in the United States worry about losing access to the wildly-popular social media app, …
The ghosts of India's TikTok: What happens when a social media ... - BBC
Dec 6, 2024 · TikTok was one of India's most popular apps – until it was banned in 2020. It's a lesson for what might unfold if a US ban goes ahead.
What Happened When India Pulled the Plug on TikTok - The New York Times
Mar 22, 2024 · In India, a country of 1.4 billion, it took TikTok just a few years to build an audience of 200 million users. India was its biggest market. Then, on June 29, 2020, the Indian …
India bans TikTok, WeChat and dozens more Chinese apps - BBC
Jun 29, 2020 · India's government has banned TikTok and dozens more Chinese-made apps it says are a danger to the country. In a statement, it said the apps were "prejudicial to …
TikTok ban looms in the US: Why India banned it 5 years ago, …
Jan 17, 2025 · India’s TikTok ban came as its bilateral ties with China reached a low in 2020. On June 15 of that year, Indian and Chinese troops clashed in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley, leading to …
The TikTok saga: What is it, why it is banned in India?
Jan 14, 2025 · India’s Information Technology Ministry argued that the app violated the country’s sovereignty and integrity, warning that such data could potentially be used for espionage …
Censorship of TikTok - Wikipedia
India's TikTok ban might have cost the app 15 million new users. 2020 ban. TikTok, along with 58 other Chinese-created apps, [24] was banned completely in India by the Ministry of Electronics …
TikTok Changed His Life. Then India Banned the App.
Mar 22, 2024 · As Washington debates a plan that could block TikTok, a content creator, Ulhas Kamathe, explains how he lost everything when it happened in India. Here’s how he rebuilt his …