Today’s teens are addicted to technology — they were practically looking at phone screens before they could walk.
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Less than a month after extending a deadline to ban TikTok for the third time, President Donald Trump told reporters late Friday night that, "We pretty much have a deal," on TikTok. The details and timing of a potential deal are not clear. TikTok did not immediately respond to messages for comment on Monday. For now, TikTok continues to function for its 170 million users in the U.S. Tech giants Apple, Google and Oracle were persuaded to continue to offer and support the app, on the promise that Trump's Justice Department would not use the law to seek potentially steep fines against them.
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. It is the third time Trump has extended the deadline. The first one was through an executive order on Jan. 20, his first day in office, after the platform went dark briefly when a national ban took effect. The second was in April when White House officials believed they were nearing a deal to spin off TikTok into a new company with U.S. ownership that fell apart after China backed out following Trump's tariff announcement.
US was closing in on TikTok deal, but China hit brakes after Trump announced tariffs: AP source says
President Donald Trump says he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days. That gives his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. The order was announced as White House officials believed they were nearing a deal for the app's operations to be spun off into a new company based in the U.S. and owned and operated by a majority of American investors, with China's ByteDance maintaining a minority position. That's according to a person familiar with the negotiations who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks. The person added that China hit the brakes after Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs.
In less than a month, TikTok could have one or a few new owners, be banned again, or simply receive another reprieve to continue operating in the U.S. Questions about the fate of the popular app has continued to linger since a law requiring its China-based parent company to divest or face a ban took effect on Jan. 19. After taking office, President Donald Trump gave the company a 75-day reprieve through an executive order. Trump told reporters on Sunday that a deal could over TikTok come soon. He did not offer any details on the interested buyers, But said the administration was in talks with "four different groups" about TikTok and that "all four are good."
For approximately 14 hours on Saturday, Jan. 18, TikTok went dark after a temporary U.S. government ban, reportedly over national security con…
TikTok is asking the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agrees to sell it. Company lawyers and China-based ByteDance on Monday urged the justices to act before the law's Jan. 19 deadline. Content creators who rely on the platform for income and some of TikTok's more than 170 million users in the U.S. filed a separate plea. The companies say a shutdown lasting just a month would cause TikTok to lose about a third of its daily users in the U.S.
More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok. They are alleging the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms young people's mental health. At the heart of each lawsuit is the TikTok algorithm, which powers what users see on the platform by populating the app's main "For You" feed with content tailored to people's interests. The lawsuits also emphasize design features that they say make children addicted to the platform. TikTok says it strongly disagrees with the claims. It says many of the allegations in the lawsuits are wrong and misleading.
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