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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martyn Landi

Trump says TikTok deal ‘very close’ as deadline looms

The US has demanded that the Chinese owners of TikTok should sell its US arm (PA) - (PA Wire)

US President Donald Trump has said a deal to find a buyer for the US operations of TikTok is “very close”, with the video app facing a ban if it is not sold by the weekend.

A law passed in the US last year demanded the sale of the app by TikTok’s parent firm, ByteDance.

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