Trump delays TikTok ban
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The deadline for TikTok to be sold or banned in the United States is set for Saturday as President Donald Trump has voiced his support for keeping the app active.
Time |
Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.
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TikTok faces an April 5 deadline to reach a deal to find a non-Chinese buyer under threat of being banned from the United States.
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President Donald Trump extended the deadline for TikTok to sell its U.S. assets or be banned already once. Will he do it again?
On his first day in office, President Trump used an executive order to hit pause on the TikTok ban for 75 days. Now he's pushing back that deadline.
President Donald Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.
On Saturday, April 5 the deadline for TikTok to be sold or be banned is due to come into force. Will the app close down again? And what will it mean?
President Trump signed an executive order on April 4th delaying the US TikTok ban by another 75 days in order to make a deal.
As TikTok’s April 5th sell-by date approaches, Americans are back to where they stood before the original January deadline: watching anxiously to see if a major social media app gets banned. But that’s far from the only big event we’ll see over the coming month.
President Donald Trump extended a deadline requiring China-based ByteDance to sell U.S. TikTok operations, marking second time Trump taken such an action.
If ByteDance does not divest TikTok by April 5, the app could go dark once again. President Trump has already addressed how he plans to prevent the ban.
US President Donald Trump yesterday extended the deadline for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the United States, allowing 75 more days to find a solution.