TikTok is a smartphone app for making and watching short videos that’s popular with teens and young adults, with typical posts centered around lip syncing, dancing or making people laugh. Trump administration officials were reviewing the deal over the past week and experts say the looming action could add pressure on ByteDance to make concessions. officials that it can resolve national security concerns, such as with a proposed partnership with American tech company Oracle. 12 unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance is able to persuade U.S. The order disallowing TikTok and WeChat from smartphone app stores takes effect Sunday, as do additional restrictions on the use of WeChat.Ī broader ban on the use of TikTok will follow on Nov. Here are some questions and answers about the deal. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. TikTok also said the ban violates its First Amendment free-speech rights. TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance Ltd., filed a complaint that said Trump exceeded his authority and did so for political reasons rather than to stop an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the U.S., as the law requires. Late Friday night, TikTok asked a federal judge in Washington to block the administration from enacting the ban. Logo of Chinese video app TikTok ion the side of the company's new office space at the C3 campus in Culver City, Calif.
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