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Montana’s TikTok Ban: Why Has It Happened and Will It Work

It becomes the first US state to ban the app and follows a move by the country’s federal government blocking employees from using it on their work phones.
Montanna became the first US state to ban the social video app TikTok.
Montanna became the first US state to ban the social video app TikTok. (Shutterstock)

TikTok has been banned in Montana. The first US state-level ban of the increasingly embattled social video app is already proving controversial, although it will not take effect until 2024.

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