America’s demand that TikTok sever ties with its Chinese parent, ByteDance, started as a principled national-security policy.

The U.S. House of Representatives, in an overwhelming 360-58 vote, passed the legislation against TikTok. On April 23, 2024, the Senate passed the bill. Shortly after, President Joe Biden signed ...

Beijing has denied this, and TikTok has always said it would not share user data with the Chinese government. But last year, former president Joe Biden signed a law which mandated that China-based ...

The White House had finalized a TikTok divestment deal earlier this week before President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” ...

ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, had a deadline to sell the app by April 5 due to a national-security law that Joe Biden signed before leaving office.

President Trump said Friday that he will sign an executive order to extend the deadline for China-based tech company ByteDance to sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer. ByteDance later acknowledged in a ...