Last week, the long-running TikTok shutdown drama appeared to wrap up. For years, there’s been lingering controversy about the app, with its future continually in doubt as deadline after deadline for it cease operating in the United States passed.
The resolution was to split off the US operation of the app, which is now being run by a new parent company, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. This company, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom is explicitly Trump-aligned. When the administration says “jump”, they say “how high?”.
