President Donald Trump keeps TikTok alive for at least another 75 days by announcing an extension of his executive order.
Barring a last-minute deal to sell popular short-form video app TikTok to U.S. owners, the app was scheduled to go dark starting today, Saturday, April 5th. A law signed by former President Joe Biden last April gave TikTok’s owner, Chinese company ByteDance, until January 19th to divest the app or have it banned in the U.S. But an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his second Inauguration Day made TikTok hands-off to the DOJ for 75 days. The executive order protected the app until April 5th.
The U.S. wants to remove the U.S. operations of TikTok from the control of China’s ByteDance. There are fears that the Chinese Communist Party will demand the personal information used by U.
