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Title: Trump Extends TikTok Deadline For Third Time

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/18/00442...

President Trump will extend the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's
U.S. operations by another 90 days, marking the third extension since taking
office. The extension aims to prevent a TikTok ban while negotiations with
potential buyers like Oracle and Project Liberty continue. CNBC reports:
"President Trump will sign an additional Executive Order this week to keep
TikTok up and running," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in
a statement. "As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok
to go dark. This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will
spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can
continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and
secure." ByteDance was nearing the deadline of June 19, to sell TikTok's U.S.
operations in order to satisfy a national security law that the Supreme Court
upheld just a few days before Trump's second presidential inauguration. Under
the law, app store operators like Apple and Google and internet service
providers would be penalized for supporting TikTok. ByteDance originally
faced a Jan. 19 deadline to comply with the national security law, but Trump
signed an executive order when he first took office that pushed the deadline
to April 5. Trump extended the deadline for the second time a day before that
April mark. Trump told NBC News in May that he would extend the TikTok
deadline again if no deal was reached, and he reiterated his plans on
Thursday.

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