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TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company users to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed, TechCrunch reported.
Even with the TikTok divest-or-ban law officially in effect since January, the app has only shutdown service in the US for one day. Now, The Information reports that an agreement for a sale satisfying the law’s requirement is close and would come with a new, separate version of the app, The Verge reported. Any deal, however, would need approval from
Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok based on a sweeping claim that President Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws, newly disclosed documents show, The New York Times reported. In letters to companies like Apple and Google, Ms. Bondi wrote that Mr. Trump had
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, The Associated Press reported. “As he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension
After being touted as a potential buyer earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied interest in acquiring TikTok’s US operations, PCMag reported. “I have not put in a bid for TikTok,” Musk said at a conference hosted by German Billionaire Mathias Döpfner. He added that he doesn’t have any plans for what I would do if I had
If you need to download and install TikTok in the US, you can do so on Android even though the app isn’t back in the Play Store yet. In a tweet, the TikTok Policy account has announced that the service has made Android Package Kits available for download through its official web site. Engadget reported. Companies don’t typically endorse sideloading,
The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app’s global operations, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks, NPR reported. Under the deal now being negotiated by the White House, TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance would retain