Overview
- The White House is expected to push past the Sept. 17 sell-or-shutoff date for ByteDance, a source told Reuters.
- Such a move would be the fourth delay under the congressionally mandated divest-or-ban law that first set a January 2025 deadline.
- No deal is anticipated by Tuesday as any transfer of TikTok’s core algorithm would need Beijing’s sign-off.
- A spring plan to spin off U.S. operations to an American-majority firm stalled after China signaled it would not approve following new U.S. tariffs.
- The platform’s future is now a formal topic in U.S.-China talks in Spain, and the app continues to serve roughly 170 million U.S. users.