Washington – . That Tiktok operates in the US for another 90 days to give your administration more time to download a contract to adapt the social media platform under American property.
Trump revealed the executive order on the Social Truth platform on Thursday morning.
“He performs an extension so that we can conclude this contract,” the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt told journalists. “This is very popular. He also wants to protect American data and fears of privacy in this application. And he believes that we can do both.”
Trump extended the date for the third time. The first executive order took place on January 20, his first day of office, after the platform passed briefly, when the national ban – approved by Congress and supported by the US Supreme Court – entered into force. . The second was in April When the White House officials believed that they were approaching the contract to transform a tiktok into a novel company with the ownership of the US, which broke up after China’s withdrawal after Trump’s tariff announcement.
It is not clear how many times Trump can – or will continue to extend the ban, because the government is still trying to negotiate a contract for Tiktok, which is the property of China’s Bejtedance. Although there is no clear legal basis for extensions, they have so far No legal challenges to fight them. Trump gathered over 15 million watching in Tiktok Joined last yearAnd he assigned a platform for determining trends, helping him gain adhesion among juvenile voters. He said in January that he had a “warm place for Tiktok.”
Tiktok praised Trump for signing the Thursday extension.
“We are grateful for the leadership and support of President Trump in ensuring that Tiktok is still available to over 170 million American users and 7.5 million American companies that rely on the platform when we continue to cooperate with the office of Deputy President Vance,” said the company in a statement.
As the extensions last, it seems less and less likely that Tiktok will be banned in the US in the near future. The decision to keep the thicket alive through the executive order has received some control, but it has so It did not face a legal challenge in court – Unlike many other Trump executive orders.
Jeremy Goldman, an analyst at the emanarketer, called the US situation “timely purgatory”.
The whole thing “begins to be less like a ticking clock, and a more looped bell. This political day of the marmot begins to resemble a ceiling drama: a repetitive threat without real resolution.”
This does not stop Tiktok from pushing the platform, says Forrester Kelsey Chickering analyst.
“Tiktok behavior also indicates its future, because this week they introduced new AI video tools in Cannes,” notes Chickering. “Smaller players, like Snap, will try to steal in this” uncertain time “, but they will not succeed, because this next round for Tiktok is not uncertain.”
For now, Tiktok is still functioning for its 170 million users in the USA, and technological giants Apple, Google and Oracle have been convinced to further offer applications and support applications, in promise that the Trump Department of Justice would not operate the right to search for potentially steep fines.
Americans are even closer to what to do with a thicket than two years ago.
Recent Pew Research Center study He stated that about a third of Americans stated that they were supporting the ban on Tiktok, compared to 50% in March 2023, about a third stated that they would oppose the ban, and a similar percentage stated that they were not sure.
According to the report, among those who said that they supported the prohibition of the social media platform, about 8 out of 10 fears about the security of user data is threatened as the main factor of their decision.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, vice -chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Trump’s administration once again “disregards the law and ignores his own findings of national security about the risk”, which was created by the Tiktok controlled by China.
“The executive order cannot bypass the law, but it is the president who tries to do,” added Warner.
