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The TikTok app logo is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2025. Who owns TikTok? TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based private global company founded by Chinese entrepreneurs ...
A logo is displayed over a door at the U.S. headquarters of the social media company TikTok in Culver City, California on January 17, 2025.
In January 2025, Chinese officials began preliminary talks about potentially selling TikTok's U.S. operations to Elon Musk if the app faced an impending ban due to national security concerns. While Beijing preferred TikTok remain under ByteDance's control, the sale could happen through a competitive process or with U.S. government involvement.
Zhang Yiming (Chinese: 张一鸣; born 1 April 1983) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur.He founded ByteDance in 2012, developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform Douyin (internationally known as TikTok).
Message displayed to US users on the TikTok app during the shutdown on January 18, 2025. The short-form video-hosting service TikTok has been under a de jure nationwide ban in the United States since January 19, 2025, due to the US government's concerns over potential user data collection and influence operations by the government of the People's Republic of China.
The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its ...
On 24 April 2024, President of the United States Joe Biden signed a bill [24] that, on 18 January 2025, resulted in TikTok being disabled and removed from app stores in the United States. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] On 20 January 2025, President Donald Trump assumed office and signed an executive order delaying the app's ban for 75 days, pending a possible ...
Elon Musk shakes hands with Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on Oct. 5, 2024. Credit - Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images On the eve of Saturday, Jan. 18, TikTok went dark in the U ...