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China weighs its options with TikTok. The latest congressional action marks another twist in a yearslong effort to limit the scale and influence of a social media app that has grown to more than ...
By Stephen Nellis and Max A. Cherney (Reuters) - Social media app TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, will be banned in the United States on Sunday unless a deal comes together to sell it ...
The discussions would mark a stark reversal in China’s stance on a TikTok sale just days before the law that could ban the app in the United States is set to go into effect. To avoid a ban, the ...
TikTok faces a possible ban in the U.S. as soon as Sunday if a law that could require the social media app's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to part ways with the platform takes effect as scheduled on ...
The short-form video-hosting service TikTok has been under a de jure nationwide ban in the United States since January 19, 2025, due to the US government's concerns over potential user data collection and influence operations by the government of the People's Republic of China. The ban took effect after ByteDance, the China-based parent company ...
After President Biden signed the law in April, which set a Jan. 19 deadline for the ban to take effect, TikTok responded by suing the U.S. government. The company said a ban would violate 1st ...
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [128] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [129] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [130]
TikTok denied a report that China is looking at potentially facilitating a sale of the app to tech billionaire Elon Musk to keep TikTok operational in America amid a looming U.S. government ban.