TikTok once again avoided a ban after the United States extended the deadline for another 75 days.
According to CNN, US President Donald Trump on Friday, April 4, 2025, announced that he will once again delay the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 75 days to facilitate the potential sale of the social media platform.
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The 78-year-old wrote on Truth Social, “My administration has been working very hard on a deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress. The deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed.”
The announcement came a day before the ban was set to go into effect on Saturday, April 5, 2025, after the first extension of 75 days that Trump granted right after taking office for the second time in January 2025.
“We hope to continue working in Good Faith with China, who I understand are not very happy about our Reciprocal Tariffs. We do not want TikTok to ‘go dark.’ We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the deal,” Trump added.
This came after the Republican president’s new tariff announcement disrupted a deal that would have transferred the video-sharing app’s US operations to American ownership.
TikTok parent company ByteDance in a statement on Friday said that it had been in discussion with the Trump administration regarding the ownership of the app that has over 170 million users in the US, but the “agreement has not been executed.”
A ByteDance spokesperson revealed that there are key matters that need to be resolved, as any deal will require approval under Chinese law.
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