At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users. (For comparison, the U.S.

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 200 million users.

India’s 2020 crackdown helped give rise to Instagram Reels, which has largely replaced it there. But TikTok has proved more resilient elsewhere.

TikTok’s time in the United States is counting down. But Washington is only the latest government to impose restrictions on the video app.

TikTok fans in the U.S. are racing to secure alternatives and safeguard their digital empires ahead of a looming shutdown, evoking the chaos of India's 2020 ban that erased the app from the lives of ...

It allowed India’s millions of regional language speakers to share their content and create digital communities. However, in 2020, the video-sharing app faced an exodus of users after the Indian ...

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While the U.S. ban has been debated for months, India acted swiftly in June 2020 to block TikTok and nearly 60 other Chinese apps over national security concerns, stripping many creators of their ...