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Michael Sainato in New York and Dan Milmo

TikTok says it is restoring service in US after Trump vowed to delay ban

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TikTok stopped working in the US for 170 million users late on Saturday. Photograph: Kiichiro Sato/AP

TikTok said on Sunday that it was restoring services in the US after Donald Trump pledged earlier in the day to give the video app a reprieve on its US ban.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that after taking office on Monday he would sign an executive order allowing the Chinese-owned video app additional time to find a buyer before facing a total shutdown, and proposing that the US or an American firm take a 50% ownership stake.

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