US President Donald Trump continues to delay TikTok ban

US President Donald Trump on April 4 postponed the deadline for Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok, otherwise the social network will be banned in the US.

Instead of having to stop operating on April 5, TikTok will be allowed to operate for another 75 days, until mid-June.

This is the second time the 47th White House boss has postponed the ban on TikTok - a social network with 170 million users in the US.

On the social network Truth Social, Mr. Trump said the TikTok deal "needs more work to ensure all necessary terms are signed."

ByteDance has continued to negotiate with the US government over the fate of TikTok, stressing that any deal must comply with Chinese law. “No agreement has been reached yet,” ByteDance said in a statement. “There are many important issues to resolve.”

In April 2024, former President Joe Biden signed a bill banning TikTok after years of concerns from the US Congress that ByteDance posed a national security risk.

Specifically, US lawmakers are concerned that ByteDance could provide TikTok user data to the Chinese government, or that the Chinese government could force ByteDance to help spread propaganda on TikTok.

The ban took effect on January 19, but was postponed for 75 days by President Trump.

So far, many companies such as Oracle, AppLovin, Amazon have expressed interest in buying TikTok./.

(Vietnam+)

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