Trump has extended the TikTok deadline again
President Trump has extended the deadline that would require China-based ByteDance to sell its U.S. TikTok operation or be shut down.
Trump has extended the TikTok deadline again
Trump announced the extension on his Truth Social platform.
“My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress,” he wrote on Truth Social post. “The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.”
This is the second time that Trump has extended a deadline for the sale of TikTok in the US. The app tried to challenge the ban, but the Supreme Court upheld it in the final days of the Biden administration.
“An agreement has not been executed,” ByteDance said in a statement. “There are key matters to be resolved.”
The app has about 170 million U.S. users.
Bruce Houghton is the Founder and Editor of Hypebot, a Senior Advisor at Bandsintown, a Berklee College Of Music professor and founder of the Skyline Artists Agency
