West Palm Beach, Florida (AP) -President Donald Trump said on Friday that an executive command was signed to keep Tikok in the USA for another 75 days to give its government more time to convey a deal to bring the social media platform under American property.
The congress had prescribed that the platform was distributed from China by January 19 or excluded in the United States for national security reasons, but Trump applied one -sidedly to extend the deadline for this weekend when he tried to negotiate an agreement to keep it up. Trump recently entertained a number of offers from US companies that want to buy part of the popular social media website, but China’s Bytedance, TikTok and its closely kept algorithm were part of that the platform is not for sale.
“My administration worked very hard on a deal to save Tikok and we made enormous progress,” wrote Trump on his social media platform. “The deal requires more work to ensure that all the necessary permits are signed. Therefore I sign a managing director to keep Tikok for another 75 days.”
Trump added: “We look forward to working with Tikk and China to complete the deal.”
Tikok, who has headquarters in Singapore and Los Angeles, has known that it is prioritizing user security, and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Chinese government has never asked companies to “collect or provide” data, information or intelligence “abroad.
Trump’s delay in the ban marks the second time that he temporarily blocked the law of 2024 that banned the popular social video app after the deadline for the sale of the bytedance was passed. This law, which was adopted in the congress with cross -party support and unanimously confirmed by the Supreme Court, said that the ban was necessary for national security.
If the expansion keeps control of TikTok’s algorithm under the authority of bytedance, these national security concerns remain.
Chris Pierson, CEO of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Platform BlackCloak, said that if the algorithm is still controlled by bytedance, it is still “checked by a company that is located in a foreign, controversial nation state that could actually use this data for other means”.
“The main reason for all of this is control of data and the control of the algorithm,” said Pierson, who worked for more than a decade in the data protection committee of the Ministry of Homeland Security and Sub -Committee of Cyber Security. “If none of these two things change, it has not changed the underlying purpose and does not change the underlying risks.”
The Republican President’s executive commands stimulated more than 130 complaints in the a little more than two months in which he was in office, but his arrangement for the delay of a Tikok ban generated hardly any look. None of these suits questions his transient block of the law to prohibit Tikkok.
The law allows 90-day reparation, but only if there is a deal on the table and a formal notification of the congress. So far, Trump’s actions violate the law, said Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Law Professor at the University of Minnesota.
Rozenshtin pushed back Trump’s claim that the delay in the ban is an “extension”. “All he does is to say that he will not enforce the law for 75 days. The law is still in force. The companies still violate it by providing TikKOK services.
“The national security risks of TikTok exist after this expansion, he said.
The expansion comes at a time when the Americans do even more closely on what is to be done with Tikkok than two years ago.
A recently from PEW Research Center survey showed that around a third of the Americans supported a ban on Tikok, compared to 50% in March 2023. About a third said they would oppose a ban, and a similar percentage stated that they were not sure.
Among those who said that they supported the ban on the social media platform, cited around 8 out of 10 concerns about the data security of the users, according to the report, an imperative factor for their decision.
Daniel Ryave in Washington, DC, heads the Tikok account @satpreptutor with around 175,000 followers. It offers test advice and helps Ryave to find tutoring students. He has Instagram and YouTube accounts, but Tiktok is better to reach people, he said.
“Almost all of my new students come through Tikkok,” he said. “A large part of my income comes from individual lessons, and this is a great way to get customers.”
When he heard about the expansion, he was “relieved”, he said.
“This expansion enables the students to continue to access high -quality short forms that they are not looking for anywhere else,” he said.
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AP Business author Mae Anderson in New York has contributed to this story.
