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The threat from the US government to stop downloading TikTok will be postponed. US President Trump has approved an agreement that global business should take place in the United States in the future, under the leadership of Oracle and Walmart.
In the dispute over the TikTok video platform, US President Donald Trump approved an agreement that will allow global companies to locate in the United States in the future. Trump spoke of 25,000 employees and a “new company” that would no longer have anything to do with China. More details will be announced soon.
According to Trump, two American companies will play a prominent role in TikTok Global: the software company Oracle and the supermarket giant Walmart. However, at the moment, it is unclear to what extent China’s approval will be required after Trump’s “fundamental approval” of the deal. The Chinese government had previously torpedoed a direct sale of the US TikTok business to the Microsoft software group. It introduced a new rule according to which software algorithms can only be sold abroad with the permission of the authorities.
Suspension deferred for one week
From Trump’s point of view, the popular TikTok app presents a security risk because it belongs to the Chinese group ByteDance, and therefore Chinese authorities could obtain data from Americans through the app. With this justification, he had laid the groundwork for the end of the application in the US with two orders. In a first step, the application should disappear from download platforms in the United States as of today and stop working in the United States as of November 12. According to the Commerce Ministry, the download lock is now postponed for a week for now.
With the orders, the US government had given TikTok owner ByteDance an ultimatum: Until November 12, little should change for TikTok, other than download blocking, in the US, the minister said. of Commerce Wilbur Ross. If ByteDance reaches a deal with US companies to sell TikTok by then, the ban could be lifted.
TikTok announced legal action
TikTok later announced, according to a media report, that it would take legal action against the ban. The company and its parent company ByteDance filed a complaint in federal court in Washington. They want to make sure that TikTok can also be downloaded in the US in the future, the Bloomberg news agency reported.
The US president has exceeded his powers, according to the complaint. Their actions have political reasons and nothing to do with the stated reason to avoid a threat to national security.
With information from Katrin Brand, ARD Studio Washington
