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Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in US TikTok operations within 90 days

Trump’s newest transfer comes on high of an govt order he issued final week that will prohibit sure transactions with TikTok until ByteDance divests it inside 45 days. (Bloomberg/File) President Donald Trump ordered ByteDance on Friday to divest the U.S. operations of its video-sharing app TikTok inside 90 days, the newest effort to ramp up strain on the Chinese language firm over issues concerning the security of the private knowledge it handles. “There’s credible proof that leads me to imagine that ByteDance … may take motion that threatens to impair the nationwide safety of the United States ,” Trump mentioned within the order. Trump’s newest transfer comes on high of an govt order he issued final week that will prohibit sure transactions with TikTok until ByteDance divests it inside 45 days. ByteDance is already in talks to promote the North America, Australia and New Zealand operations of TikTok to Microsoft Corp. Learn| TikTok and its employees prepare to fight Donald Trump over