President-elect says he would sign order to give company an extra 90 days to find a buyer before facing shutdown
Donald Trump pledged on Sunday to give TikTok a reprieve on its US ban, saying he would sign an executive order allowing the company an additional 90 days to find a buyer before facing a total shutdown, and proposing that the US or an American firm take a 50% ownership stake.
TikTok stopped working in the US for 170 million users late on Saturday, as the Chinese-owned short video app shut down in response to a federal ban. In a social media post on Sunday the president-elect promised he would sign an executive order after taking office on Monday.
