TikTok goes dark and disappears from app stores

TIkTok’s 170 million users started receiving a “services temporarily unavailable” notice late Saturday night and the app was no longer available in Google and Apple’s app stores as a law to ban the app was set to take official effect at midnight.Why it matters: It’s the first time the U.S. has banned a major online platform of this scale.Between the lines: In declining to enforce the ban during his last day in office, President Biden essentially shifted the responsibility for enforcing the law to incoming President Trump. Trump has indicated that he will try to keep TikTok alive in the…