For Small-Town TikTok Stars, Mixed Emotions After Government Blocks App
By the time the government banned Chinese video-sharing app TikTok on Monday, along with 58 others from that country, India was the app's top market, accounting for 30 per cent of its two billion downloads worldwide. TikTok's parent company - ByteDance - had laid out plans to invest $1 billion in the country and had hired several senior executives since 2019.
