There have been so many twists and turns in TikTok’s politically contorted saga that each development passes as fleetingly as one of the app’s 15-second videos.
The latest came late Tuesday. With a November 12 deadline looming for TikTok to sell its US operations, or risk being shut down, the app’s Chinese parent ByteDance filed an eleventh hour legal challenge in a federal court seeking a reprieve.
ByteDance had already struck a complex partnership agreement with Oracle and Walmart in September in a bid to prevent TikTok, which has about 100m users in the US, from a ban there. The plan, creating a new TikTok Global company headquartered in the US to oversee local user data, was initially blessed by Mr Trump.
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