One in three people in Europe now uses TikTok, according to its parent company ByteDance.
The Chinese tech giant said TikTok has reached 200 million monthly users across 32 European countries, while globally the platform attracts around 1 billion users, according to a company spokesperson.
However, TikTok’s future remains uncertain in the United States, where former president Joe Biden signed a law in April 2024 requiring ByteDance to sell its US operations to an American company or face a permanent ban over national security concerns.
Washington has alleged that ByteDance shares TikTok user data with the government of China, claims which ByteDance has consistently denied.
The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House in 2022 extended TikTok’s survival, after he signed several executive orders delaying the implementation of the legislation.
