ByteDance in talks with US to avoid selling TikTok: Report

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Chinese internet giant ByteDance is in talks with the US about ways it might avoid having to sell its TikTok operations here, the Wall Street ...

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is in talks to avoid being forced by President Donald Trump to sell the wildly popular social media app AFP/Olivier DOULIERYSAN FRANCISCO: Chinese Internet giant ByteDance is in talks with the US about ways it might avoid having to sell its TikTok operations here, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday .

The suit contends that Trump's order was a misuse of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act because the platform is not"an unusual and extraordinary threat." At least one of TikTok's major investors was part of a group that met recently with representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency to discuss data security, the Journal reported, citing someone familiar with the matter.

"And I said that the United States has to be compensated -- well compensated -- because we are the ones that are making it possible, and so we should be compensated."

 

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