President Donald Trump temporarily halted a ban on TikTok in the US, granting the company and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. more time to reach a deal for the popular app that would resolve long-standing US national security concerns.
TikTok’s lifeline came via an executive order signed by Trump on Monday in one of his first acts after taking office. The move gives the video-sharing platform a 75-day reprieve from a US prohibition that took effect on Sunday following ByteDance’s refusal to comply with a law requiring it to divest. Trump had spent the past several days promising an extension ...
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