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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was open to billionaire Elon Musk buying social media app TikTok — if the Tesla CEO wanted to do so. “I would be, if he wanted to buy it,” Trump told reporters. Trump signed an executive order on Monday that gives the Chinese-owned app a 75-day reprieve from […]
President Trump threw TikTok a lifeline Monday night, giving the popular app’s parent company 75 more days to find a buyer for the platform. The 78-year-old argued during a conversation with reporters in the Oval Office that the US should “get half” of TikTok, before caveating that some percentage of that could be from the private sector. Beijing-based ByteDance had a Jan. […]
Many tech leaders and companies have courted President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks. From Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, they have visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, flattered him on X and donated to his inaugural fund. But TikTok has taken those methods to the next level. As the Chinese-owned social app […]
For months, Instagram has watched and waited to see what would happen to rival TikTok under a new federal law that would ban the app in the United States. On Sunday, the day that law took effect, Instagram pounced. The social media app, which is owned by Meta, announced a new app called Edits, a […]
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of TikTok, just hours after major app stores removed the popular social media site and it stopped operating for U.S. users. “I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark,” Mr. Trump said in a post […]
TikTok has gone down — for now. The popular video-sharing app, used by 170 million Americans, went dark late Saturday after TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company announced that they will make their services “temporarily unavailable.” Shortly before 11 p.m., US users were greeted with a message that said: “Sorry TikTok isn’t available right now” and the site […]
Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China’s ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S. The Apple App Store and the Google Play store’s removal of TikTok means people in the U.S. can no longer download the […]
The incoming Trump administration and the Biden administration went back and forth on Saturday over the status of TikTok and whether a ban of the service would take place, after the video app said that it would be forced to “go dark” on Sunday when a federal law takes effect. President-elect Donald J. Trump told […]
In mid-2023, TikTok had just eluded an effort in Congress to ban the video app, the latest Houdini-like escape for the young tech company. For several years, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, lawmakers and officials had trained their sights on the app, saying its Chinese ownership posed a national security risk. Inside TikTok, a […]
TikTok said the popular video-sharing platform will go dark on its 170 million American users on Sunday unless the Biden administration can guarantee service providers won’t be punished for operating the app when the ban takes effect. The statement came hours after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a law forcing the app to be divested […]
