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TikTok Must Find Non-Chinese Owner By Saturday To Avert US Ban

US President Donald Trump suggested tariffs could be wielded to persuade Beijing to approve the sale of social media app TikTok (Credit: AFP)

TikTok on Friday was hours from a deadline to find a non-Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States.

The hugely popular video-sharing app, which has more than 170 million American users, is under threat from a US law that passed overwhelmingly last year and orders TikTok to split from its Chinese owner ByteDance or get shut down in the United States.

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