TikTok has been given another 90 days by the Trump administration to operate in the US after a law was passed last year that would force parent company ByteDance to sell the video-sharing platform.
The ban was originally signed into law in April 2024, but TikTok owner ByteDance appealed to the US Supreme Court. In January, the court upheld the law saying that the app could not operate domestically unless it was sold to a US company because of concerns that ByteDance had links with the Chinese government.
While the decision to uphold the ban was not a popular one with users of the platform, concerns about ByteDance’s close ties to the Chinese administration were not unfounded.
Chinese national security laws require that all domestic firms hand over intelligence when requested by Beijing. This was cited as one of the reasons for the ban on Huawei implemented under the first Trump administration in 2019. Prior to that ban, Huawei was responsible for building swathes of data infrastructure...