Toyama: The ban on TikTok could move more slowly than you might think

As U.S politicians grow increasingly concerned about TikTok’s use of user data, efforts to ban the social media platforms are growing. 

University of Michigan School of Information professor Kentaro Toyama talked to CBS News about the move to phase out the platform. 

"Everyone who's installed it would still have it. But my guess is that for everyone who has it on their phone, it would stop working in various ways," Toyama said. 

If a ban is enforced and Apple and Google remove the social media company from their app stores, users would have no way to run updates on them, and they would eventually stop working with the phone systems. 

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Read “As Senate pushes a ban, what happens to TikTok?” on CBS. 

Learn more about Toyama’s research and publications by visiting his UMSI faculty profile.