In this late summer there will be a new Tikok app exclusively for the USA in the USA. The information reports. Accordingly, the parent company Bytance complies with the request of the US government. Already under Joe Biden, a ban on the Chinese service was decided, Donald Trump states – after several pushing.
While the new app should be available from September 5, is according to the report The existing TikTok app only switched off in March. How the new app will be set up is unclear. Neither technical details nor those for operation have become known.
The United States criticized the information transfer of the data of American users to the Chinese government. The US governments saw this as given. A possible threat to national security is also feared by draining information and also intervening in the discourse. The provider of the app is responsible for deciding which content is shown.
Trump sees an agreement with China for TikTok sales
The incumbent US President, Donald Trump, said last Friday that there would be an agreement with China at the beginning of this week. China is not the operator of Tikkok, but has to agree to a sale – the Chinese law provides that. Nevertheless, Trump said that he was negotiating with China and that there was “an agreement”.
Actually, Bytedance Tiktok should have sold in January. It is only the US business. Otherwise, the service in the USA should be banned. The deadline has been extended several times since then. It currently applies until September 17th.
Not only had Bytedance always said that it would not be sold, but it was also not technically not possible to split off the US business from that of the rest of the world, so far. China had recently ruled out a sale of the business several times and referred to the tariffs raised by Trump to Chinese goods.
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