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Title: TikTok ban gets extended to 90 days with new executive order Post by: HCK on August 16, 2020, 04:05:21 pm TikTok ban gets extended to 90 days with new executive order
TikTok survives in the United States for little longer. What you need to know Trump has issued a new executive order concerning TikTok. The new order forces ByteDance to divest of its business in the United States within 90 days. The previous order would have effectively banned the app in 45 days. TikTok might just survive in the United States after all. On Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that forces China's ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, to sell or spin off its business in the United States in the next 90 days. Reported by CNBC, President Trump says that there is credible evidence that the company could take actions that would threaten the national security of the country, but has not provided any evidence to back up those claims yet. "There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that ByteDance ... might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States," Trump said in his order. The new executive or... Source: TikTok ban gets extended to 90 days with new executive order (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/BgVk396AiNk/tiktok-ban-gets-extended-90-days-new-executive-order) |