The process is being run in a nakedly political way. Although both TikTok and its would-be acquirers are private companies, the White House is organising the sale.

Our study is based on a massive dataset of over 16 million TikTok videos from more than 160,000 public accounts between 2019 and 2023. We saw a spike of political TikTok videos during the 2020 U.S ...

In January, TikTok took itself offline for about 14 hours — and app stores removed access to the platform in the United States — after the law’s initial sale-or-ban deadline passed with no deal.

WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will extend a June 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of short video app TikTok for 90 days despite a law ...

TikTok just got another lifeline from the White House, with President Donald Trump set to delay enforcement of the sale-or-ban law by another 90 days.

After months of speculation, TikTok users in the U.S. are once again facing uncertainty. President Donald Trump, who returned to office in January, has extended the app’s sale-or-ban deadline ...

Gaming Industry Trump extends TikTok sale deadline in the US yet again, leaving the whole situation feeling 'less like a ticking clock and more like a looped ringtone… political Groundhog Day' News ...

Trump in announcing the extended deadline for a TikTok sale brought up the tariffs and said his administration would continue working with China on a deal. TikTok's Chinese parent company ...

Some political officials have seen TikTok as a national security threat for years, expressing concern that ByteDance may be sharing U.S. user data with the Chinese government.

There’s tremendous interest in TikTok,” Trump told reporters late Sunday, according to Reuters. “The decision is going to be my decision, as you know, through Congress.

Some political officials have seen TikTok as a national security threat for years, expressing concern that ByteDance may be sharing U.S. user data with the Chinese government.