Existing ByteDance investors emerge as front-runners in TikTok deal talks

Click Here: The TikTok Ban, China, And National Security : 1A

The story of TikTok in the U.S. is one that's had many chapters, to say the least. First, then-President Donald Trump called for its ban in 2020. Then, President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan law in 2024 requiring the company in charge of the video-sharing platform to sell the app or face a ban. Then, the app went dark this January after failing to sell, only to come back hours later, thanking newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump for his sup…

Existing ByteDance investors emerge as front-runners in TikTok deal talks

White House-led talks on the future of TikTok are coalescing around a plan for the biggest non-Chinese investors in parent company ByteDance to up their stakes and acquire the short video app's U.S. operations, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

No one more than Trump has been able to establish himself on the social media scene and use them as a winning tool in his electoral (and post-election) battles. Someone has cursed that, among the existing platforms, the one where he broke through the least - at least in the first election campaign - was TikTok, and perhaps it is because he never digested this diminished conquest that, since 2020, Trump has waged a war with the Chinese app that h…

Existing ByteDance investors emerge as front-runners in TikTok deal talks, sources say

U.S.-led talks on the future of TikTok are coalescing around a plan for the biggest non-Chinese investors in parent company to up their stakes and acquire the app’s U.S. operations

The US Cannot Compromise with the CCP over TikTok

The US Cannot Compromise with the CCP over TikTok cnichols@hudson.org Fri, 03/21/2025 - 09:40 SVG Commentary Mar 20, 2025 Providence The US Cannot Compromise with the CCP over TikTok Michael Sobolik Senior Fellow Michael Sobolik Caption Illustration of Tik Tok. (Riccardo Milani / Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty) Toggle Table of Contents Contents Contents Share to Twitter Twitter Share to Facebook Facebook Share to LinkedIn LinkedIn Share to E-mai…

Lawmaker Says US Shouldn’t Relent on Forcing China’s ByteDance to Sell TikTok

House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich., said March 19 that a deal that allows ByteDance to retain control of TikTok would violate a U.S. law requiring the Chinese company to sell the popular social media application. ...