The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or face a U.S. ban. Now the question is whether Donald Trump will enforce this law.

21 hours ago · Whether ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company in China, will go along with such a deal and whether the deal would satisfy the law remain open questions. ... but it now seems stuck with Xi Jinping ...

Jan 17, 2025 · ByteDance's Lemon8 gains traction Supreme Court TikTok mounted a free speech challenge to a bipartisan law that would ban the app on national security grounds if its Chinese owner does not sell it.

Mar 18, 2024 · Can the Chinese Communist Party manipulate ByteDance or TikTok? As a China-based company, ByteDance is subject to a myriad of national intelligence, data security and cybersecurity laws.

Jan 21, 2025 · Chinese authorities appear to be softening their stance on the fate of TikTok, possibly paving the way for Beijing-based ByteDance to begin talks with American investors, according to a report, citing people familiar with the matter. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Reuters File.

Jan 17, 2025 · Trump said in a Truth Social post shortly before the decision was issued that TikTok was among the topics in his conversation Friday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.It’s unclear what options are ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The app, which boasts 170 million US users, faces a potential ban unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells its US operations. President Trump has delayed the ban by 75 days to explore ...

Mar 12, 2024 · Chinese leader Xi Jinping has declared, “Whoever controls big data technologies will control the resources for development and have the upper hand.” ByteDance, the Chinese conglomerate behind the social media phenomenon TikTok, is central to Beijing ’s plans for artificial intelligence (AI) supremacy.

Jan 17, 2025 · As it stands, ByteDance must sell the US operations for social media platform by Jan. 19 or shut it down. Just before the court release its decision today, President-elect Donald Trump said on social media he’d just spoken with Chinese President Xi …

Jan 9, 2025 · Now TikTok faces its own custom-written law, one that specifically forces ByteDance to sell TikTok to a U.S. company or imposes enormous fines on companies like Apple and Google if they continue...