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Tyler Wilde

TikTok users in the US will reportedly have to move to a new app with new American owners when Trump deal takes effect

A phone displaying the TikTok logo in front of the US flag.

The US and China have just about settled on a deal to keep video app TikTok alive in the US, and The Wall Street Journal reports that Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz are among the investors that will take a "roughly 80%" share of a new US company that will operate a new US version of the app.

President Trump first threatened to ban TikTok in 2020, claiming that the app's Chinese owner presented a national security risk, and in 2024 a ban was signed into law by President Biden.

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