The move is in accordance with executive action President Donald Trump took on his first day in office.
on their app stores after Attorney General Pam Bondi told the companies her Department of Justice would not penalize them for violating a national security law, ending a 27-day hiatus of the video-sharing platform from app stores.
The Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 mandated that TikTok be sold from its Chinese parent company ByteDance by January 19 or face a U.S. ban. "The law, after all, risks ruinous bankruptcy for any company who violates it. Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date. For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China.
"I hope to be able to make a deal. I think it would be good. You know, people have learned it’s very popular. And we’ll probably have to get approval from China to do it," Trump said.
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