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TikTok wasn’t the only app to go dark in the United States late Saturday evening ahead of a federal law banning the social media platform going into effect.
Other ByteDance-owned apps faced bans for U.S.-based users, including video-editing app CapCut and video-sharing app Lemon8.
In addition to TikTok, all other Companies and Services owned by the Chinese Internet Company, ByteDance will also go Offline in the United States tonight at Midnight, this includes the Video Editing Software, CapCut. pic.twitter.com/2dUwcxITZJ
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) January 19, 2025
CapCut to shut down alongside TikTok tonight.
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/ZxqOaZ1BA3
— AF Post (@AFpost) January 19, 2025
“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now,” a TikTok alert read.
“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!” it added.
NEW — TikTok is no longer available in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/aw0qZYq0eC
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 19, 2025
Per WIRED:
Similar notifications appear on other apps owned by ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, which is based in China and sits at the core of the controversy over a popular video app that, at least until Saturday, had 170 million users in the US. Video-editing app CapCut, photo- and video-sharing app Lemon8, and others have now gone dark in the US.
A federal law passed last year bans ByteDance-owned apps from operating in the US on national security grounds. In reaction to Chinese laws that demand China-based companies provide their data to the Chinese government and intelligence agencies, the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA) required ByteDance to sell TikTok and its other apps to an entity not based in China by Sunday.
That sale did not happen. As a result, TikTok began blocking US-based users on Saturday, January 18, ahead of the midnight deadline. Because PAFACA bans all apps operated by ByteDance, not just TikTok, users of its myriad other apps are meeting the same restrictions.
PAFACA does not require ByteDance to block US-based users of its apps. Instead, it prohibits any US company from providing any service to “distribute, maintain or update” ByteDance-owned apps. As a result, many of these apps are no longer available in Apple and Google’s app stores. That may change soon after Donald Trump takes office on Monday, however, with the US president-elect indicating that he plans to extend the deadline for a sale of TikTok by 90 days. Yes, it is all very confusing.
Everyone’s talking about the TikTok ban…but did you know they also Banned CapCut tonight…. the video editing app.
For what? Empowering regular people to make professional video edits? An absolute assault on our speech. pic.twitter.com/FpL4L2cE1k
— Brett Pike (@ClassicLearner) January 19, 2025
🚨#BREAKING: Here are the following apps shut down in the United States tonight:
• TikTok
• CapCut
• Lemon8
• Gauth
• Hypic— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 19, 2025
USA TODAY reports:
CapCut is a free video editing software, released by ByteDance in the U.S. in 2020. CapCut is available for mobile and desktop download and accessible through the CapCut website.
As of Thursday, CapCut was the second most downloaded photo and video app in the Apple App Store (after Instagram) and had been downloaded more than 1 billion times from the Google Play Store.
CapCut is not explicitly named in the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Control Applications App, which would implement the ban on TikTok. However, the legislation does address “any other applications or service development or provided by ByteDance.” Therefore, CapCut could be affected.