President Trump extends TikTok ban deadline amid legal questions
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending the deadline for TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app’s U.S. operations — granting another 90 days before a pot…
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President Donald Trump says he may extend the deadline for the sale of China's TikTok app for a third time, adding that he believes a deal will eventually transpire.
TikTok was given a lifeline for a third time by President Trump, allowing it to keep running through mid-September in spite of U.S. legislation requiring its Chinese owners to divest its operation.
President Trump plans to sign an executive order this week which will keep the platform, which has about 170 million U.S. users, running despite a bipartisan law banning it over national security concerns.
Last year, Congress banned the app in the U.S., citing national security concerns and demanding it spin off from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. Trump said he'll once again pause enforcement of the ban.
It is the third time President Trump has extended the deadline. The first one was through an executive order on Jan. 20, his first day in office, after the platform went dark briefly when a national ban.
President Trump signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
President Donald Trump on Thursday extended a deadline for Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok. The deadline for that to happen was supposed to be Thursday.
In April, White House officials believed they were nearing a deal to spin off TikTok into a new company with U.S. ownership, but it fell apart when China backed out following President Trump’s tariff announcement.
WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump today extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short-video app TikTok despite a law that mandated a sale or shutdown without significant progress.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending the deadline for TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app’s U.S. operations — granting another 90 days before a pot…
