On Friday, August 14th, following threats to ban TikTok, Donald Trump set a deadline of 90 days to its Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest itself from its U.S. ownership of TikTok, the White House announced Friday in an executive order. “There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that ByteDance … might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States,” Trump wrote in the executive order (EO), which served as an extension of sorts for the social media app following a 45-day divestment deadline weeks earlier.
As part of TikTok sale, the EO also demanded that ByteDance destroy all data connected to the app’s U.S. users, and then “certify in writing” to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States “that such destruction of data is complete.” On August 6th, Trump issued a similar executive order to both TikTok parent company ByteDance and Chinese tech giant Tencent, owner of WeChat, in response to “the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China” and the security risk they allegedly pose.
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