TikTok Gets 75-Day Reprieve From US Ban Under Trump Executive Order [Video]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday delaying the U.S.’s ban on TikTok by 75 days, giving the Chinese-owned social media app time to find a U.S. buyer.

“I am instructing the Attorney General not to take any action to enforce the Act for a period of 75 days from today to allow my Administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward in an orderly way that protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown of a communications platform used by millions of Americans,” Trump’s order said. 

The grace period caps a few volatile days for the app, which has 170 million U.S. users. It briefly went “dark” over the weekend after the Supreme Court upheld a law Friday requiring its Chinese parent ByteDance sell the app or shut it down on national security grounds. Services were restored hours later, however, when Trump, on the eve of his inauguration, announced his plan for the executive order.

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