Overview

• The current June 19 deadline will be extended by 90 days through a presidential decree due to lack of Chinese approval.
• Congress mandated ByteDance to relinquish control of TikTok’s US arm under a 2024 law or face a nationwide ban on the app.
• An April framework would have shifted non-Chinese ownership from 60% to 80% while leaving ByteDance with 20%, but US tariffs derailed Beijing’s consent.
• ByteDance has yet to agree to sell TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, a core US concern over data security and potential influence.
• TikTok remains widely used with 170 million US users and ranks as the second most downloaded Android app behind ChatGPT, reflecting the president’s own ‘‘soft spot’’ for the platform.