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TikTok Is Back
TikTok Is Back
Feb 14, 2025 1:30 AM CST

TikTok Is Back

Google, Apple return it to their app stores

(Newser) - You can once again download TikTok from your app store of choice after Google and Apple both restored the social media app's availability. After a law banning TikTok went into effect in the US, the Chinese-owned app was removed from app stores, but it has now returned following President...

Trump Signs Order to Create Sovereign Wealth Fund

New US investment fund could take stake in TikTok

(Newser) - President Trump signed an executive order Monday to create a national sovereign wealth fund, which could be used for the US to acquire a stake in TikTok. More than 100 countries have such funds, which act as national investment funds, controlling a total of more than $8 trillion in assets,...

Trump: Microsoft Is Eyeing TikTok
Trump:
Microsoft Is
Eyeing TikTok
Jan 28, 2025 3:30 AM CST

Trump: Microsoft Is Eyeing TikTok

President indicates 'bidding war' is brewing

(Newser) - President Trump said Monday evening that Microsoft is among the US companies looking to take control of TikTok to help the popular app avert an effective ban that could kick-in in April, the AP reports. "I would say yes," Trump told reporters when asked if Microsoft was one...

Farmers Worry About the Fate of 'FarmTok'

Farmers use social media as vital tool to engage the public, advertise, share information

(Newser) - Zoe Kent hopes people get a little joy out of her talking about farming on the Internet. In one of her latest videos, she compares pesticide application to dry shampoo. "Farming is for the girls," she quips. On Instagram and TikTok, as "farmwithzoe," Kent films herself...

China: Xi Call With Trump Was &#39;Exceedingly Warm&#39;
Trump Softens His
Rhetoric on China
Jan 24, 2025 1:47 PM CST

Trump Softens His Rhetoric on China

Says he'd 'rather not have to use' tariffs against China, which says Xi call with Trump was 'warm'

(Newser) - The three "T's" were on the agenda during President Trump's phone call, ahead of his inauguration, with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week: TikTok, trade, and Taiwan, reports Reuters . And it was "a good, friendly conversation" that "went fine," Trump told Fox News in...

Trump: 'Sad Thing' That Biden Didn't Pardon Himself

President sits down with Fox's Sean Hannity, with a slew of topics on the agenda

(Newser) - President Trump sat down with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, his first sit-down interview since the inauguration, per the BBC . They covered a range of topics, from pardons and TikTok to FEMA and the JFK files. A quick recap of some standout quotes from their interview, per the...

TikTok Begins Restoring Service After Trump Pledge

Next national security adviser says president-elect and China's president agreed to work together on issue

(Newser) - TikTok announced Sunday that it's begun the process of restoring service to users in the US, after a shutdown began the night before. A statement said the change was in response to President-elect Trump's post promising to postpone enforcement of the US ban on the platform to give...

TikTok Goes Dark in the US, for Now
Trump Commits to Delay
After TikTok Goes Dark
updated
Jan 19, 2025 10:09 AM CST

Trump Commits to Delay After TikTok Goes Dark

App shuts down in US, but president-elect says he'll sign an executive order on Monday

(Newser) - TikTok is no longer working for most users in America, but President-elect Trump committed on Sunday to officially delaying enforcement of the ban. Chinese parent company ByteDance began shuttering the app at 10:30pm Saturday to comply with a Supreme Court ruling on Friday, reports USA Today . Those who attempt...

Trump Floats 90-Day Extension for TikTok to Cut a Deal

White House agrees the enforcement of the new law is up to the next administration

(Newser) - President-elect Trump said Saturday that he'll "most likely" give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from its mandated shutdown when he takes office so its parent company can work out a deal for the platform. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the law requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok or take...

Where Things Stand on TikTok After Supreme Court Ruling

'Stay tuned!' writes President-elect Trump, who says platform's fate is in his hands

(Newser) - The Supreme Court opted on Friday to uphold the ban on TikTok in the name of national security, meaning if parent company ByteDance, which is based in China, doesn't find a US buyer to take over the company before Sunday, the app will essentially die a slow death in...

Supreme Court Upholds Ban on TikTok
Supreme Court
Upholds Ban on TikTok
Jan 17, 2025 9:33 AM CST

Supreme Court Upholds Ban on TikTok

New users won't be able to download it come Sunday unless a US buyer emerges

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overrides concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in...

Biden Won't Enforce TikTok Ban: Source

App's fate will apparently be left to President-elect Trump

(Newser) - President Biden won't enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office on Monday, a US official said Thursday, leaving its fate in the hands of President-elect Trump. Congress last year, in a law signed by Biden,...

As Ban Approaches, Here Are TikTok&#39;s Options
Trump Aims to
Save TikTok: Report
UPDATED
Jan 16, 2025 2:00 AM CST

Trump Aims to Save TikTok: Report

Social media platform in danger of going dark this weekend

(Newser) - President-elect Trump is considering ways he could "preserve" TikTok once he takes office, according to a GOP congressman. If the Supreme Court upholds the US ban on the Chinese-owned social media platform, Trump "has been very clear" about what he'd do, Rep. Mike Waltz, Trump's pick...

Could Musk Take Control of TikTok, Too?

China considers selling US operations to Trump ally, Bloomberg reports

(Newser) - Elon Musk might soon have another social media app under his control. Chinese officials are considering selling TikTok's US operations, valued at upward of $50 billion, to the world's richest man as a means of preventing an outright ban in the US, Bloomberg reports. China would much prefer...

TikTok Seems to Lack Allies on Supreme Court

China's ownership is the issue, majority suggests in arguments, rather than the platform

(Newser) - Most Supreme Court justices appeared supportive during oral arguments on Friday of a law taking effect this month requiring TikTok be sold or essentially shut down in the US. Rather than uphold or reject the legislation, the court could impose an administrative stay, Politico reports, that would block it from...

TikTok Case Goes Before Supreme Court on Friday

Justices hold Chinese app's fate in their hands

(Newser) - The law that could ban TikTok is going before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app's fate in their hands. The popular social-media platform says the law violates the First Amendment and should be struck down, per the AP . TikTok's parent company, ByteDance,...

Dermatologists Raise Eyebrows at New Beef Skincare Trend

TikTockers have gone there

(Newser) - Bet you didn't have this one on your TikTok trend bingo card: The buzziest skincare trend on the platform involves whipping up homemade beef tallow creams (or paying big bucks for artisan blends). The New York Times , however, notes that not all dermatologists are on board with the practice....

Trump Asks SCOTUS for Delay on TikTok Ban

President-elect wants Supreme Court to postpone barring platform until he gets into office

(Newser) - President-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to pause the potential TikTok ban from going into effect until his administration can pursue a "political resolution" to the issue. The request came as TikTok and the Biden administration filed opposing briefs to the court, in which the company argued...

After Killing, 'There Will Be No TikTok in Albania'

Government announces one-year suspension over concern about violence among young people

(Newser) - In response to bullying and violence that included the killing of a teenager last month, Albania announced Saturday that it is blocking the use of TikTok in the nation for a year. The ban suspension is part of a school safety plan to take effect early in the new year....

Supreme Court Will Hear TikTok's Appeal

Oral arguments scheduled for Jan. 10

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear TikTok's appeal of a federal law that could ban the app in the US if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company. That law is set to kick in Jan. 19; the court will hear arguments on Jan....

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