{"id":94533,"date":"2025-12-19T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=94533"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:57:41","slug":"tiktok-likely-to-avoid-ban-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/tiktok-likely-to-avoid-ban-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok likely to avoid ban in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Good news has emerged for around 170 million <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/tiktok-introduces-new-feature-to-promote-small-businesses-in-pakistan\/\">TikTok <\/a>users in the United States, as the popular short-video platform is now likely to avoid a nationwide ban.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese company ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, announced on Thursday that it has signed binding agreements with three major investors to establish a joint venture that will operate TikTok\u2019s US app. The move is aimed at preventing a potential ban by the US government and is being seen as a significant step toward ending years of uncertainty surrounding the app\u2019s future in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement marks a major milestone for TikTok, which is used by more than 170 million Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute over TikTok began in August 2020, when then-President Donald Trump made an unsuccessful attempt to ban the app over national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the agreement align with a plan revealed in September, when President Trump delayed enforcement of a law requiring TikTok to be banned unless its Chinese owners divested US assets. At the time, Trump stated that the deal met the divestiture requirements under the 2024 law.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Good news has emerged for around 170 million TikTok users in the United States, as the popular short-video platform is now likely to avoid a nationwide ban. Chinese company ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, announced on Thursday that it has signed binding agreements with three major investors to establish a joint venture that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":11056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[25885,182],"class_list":["post-94533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-technology","tag-tiktok-ban-in-us","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94534,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94533\/revisions\/94534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}