TikTok said it will be "forced to go dark" on Jan. 19 unless the Biden administration guarantees the divest-or-ban law won’t be enforced.

Currently looking for ways to keep the app's availability in the U.S., and is expected to leave it to the next government to implement the ban.

TikTok says it will shut down its U.S. operations on Sunday unless the Biden administration can give 'definitive' assurances that massive fines against companies that host the app won't be enforced. It comes as the Supreme Court upheld a law banning the social media app.

The Supreme Court rejected TikTok's appeal to halt a law banning the app in the U.S. unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake by Jan. 19.

Could Elon Musk save TikTok in the US? China weighs option to sell the controversial TikTok social media app's US operations ahead of looming ban

TikTok is set to be banned in the US on 19 January after the Supreme Court denied a last ditch legal bid from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. It found the law banning the social media platform did not violate the first amendment rights of TikTok and its 170 million users,