A proposed deal to save the app and avoid the TikTok ban enacted by Congress last year was approved by President Trump.

TikTok won’t be allowed to die if its core user base moves on. It’ll become a refuge for anyone, or any bot, to gin up the kind of engagement-bait and AI slop that now dominates Facebook and X.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

Giving TikTok’s US operations new ownership is meant to satisfy the nationwide ban-or-divest law targeting ByteDance.

TikTok and the U.S. government. We've seen bans, extensions, rumored deals, and app shutdowns – it's certainly been a ...