A TikTok ban Sunday would implicate tech giants like Google, Apple and Oracle, who risk enormous fines if they keep the app operational.

United States President-elect, Donald Trump says he may give the popular video-sharing platform, TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the platform avoid a U.S. ban. Trump, who made this known on Saturday during an interview with NBC News,

TikTok was not available for many of its 170 million users in the U.S. hours before a ban on the social media platform was supposed to go into effect.

A law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing the video-sharing platform to U.S. users takes effect on Sunday.

"We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation," the President-elect tells Kristen Welker in a phone interview

The incoming president said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day extension called for in a law upheld by the Supreme Court yesterday to see it sold or banned by a deadline tomorrow. In a phone interview with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker of NBC News,

TikTok said it will be forced to go dark on January 19, the day the ban is set to take effect, without more assurances it won't be enforced.

The controversial Chinese-owned app TikTok has gone offline, about an hour and a half before a deadline that would see it banned in the US.The app posted a message at about 10.30 p.m. eastern time saying: “Sorry,

TikTok, which is without Joe Biden's support, has claimed that on Sunday (January 19), they will "go dark," obliging to a United States ban; however, the White House claims their threat is just a "stunt.

TikTok is toast in the U.S. ... at least for now. The social media giant, best known for its users sharing real-life videos, went dark for 170 million Americans late Saturday night. As this was going down,

President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the possibility of delaying a ban less than 24 hours from when the social media app is expected to shut down.

TikTok plans to cease operations in the United States on Sunday unless President Joe Biden intervenes before he leaves office one day later.