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TikTok proprietor ByteDance has been granted a seven-day extension on an order from the Trump Administration to promote the short-form video sharing platform (through Reuters).
The administration had beforehand granted ByteDance a 15-day extension of the order issued in August, which was set to run out Friday. President Trump on August 14 directed ByteDance to divest the app inside 90 days.
According to a courtroom submitting on Wednesday, nevertheless, the Chinese firm now has a brand new deadline of December four to promote TikTok to a home U.S. firm.
ByteDance has additionally reportedly provided the U.S. authorities a brand new proposal aimed toward addressing its considerations, an individual briefed on the matter informed Reuters.
ByteDance stays in protracted talks with Walmart and Oracle on a deal that might divest it of the social media app and create a brand new U.S.-based firm known as TikTok Global.
In September, a federal decide granted TikTok a preliminary injunction that quickly halted an order from the Trump Administration that might have banned new downloads of the app within the United States as a result of of the dangers posed by their knowledge assortment practices and Chinese possession.
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