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Trump administration set to waive TikTok sell-or-die deadline for a third time

The Register · Simon Sharwood · last updated

The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell its US operations to a local company or stop operating on US soil.

A widely reported statement from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that President Trump intends to “sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep TikTok up and running.”

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The U.S. Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law a measure banning TikTok if it weren’t sold by its Chinese ownership. But now-President Donald Trump gave the service a reprieve, and a sale of its U.S. operations appears imminent.

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