{"id":224,"date":"2025-08-23T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/?p=224"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:41:50","slug":"us-president-donald-trump-to-keep-extending-tiktok-ban-amid-search-for-us-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/us-president-donald-trump-to-keep-extending-tiktok-ban-amid-search-for-us-buyer\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump to keep extending TikTok ban amid search for US buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jsx-ace90f4eca22afc7 jsx-73334835\"><em><strong>Trump called TikTok security concerns &#8220;overrated&#8221; and said he will keep extending its US ban deadline. Congress wants US ownership, but public opinion is divided, with data privacy driving most supporters.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has called concerns about TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, \u201chighly overrated\u201d and announced he will continue extending the deadline for the popular video-sharing platform until a buyer is found.<\/p>\n<p>Congress approved a ban on TikTok unless ByteDance sold its controlling stake, but Trump has already extended the deadline three times during his second term, with the next extension due September 17.<\/p>\n<p>The US government is pushing for TikTok to come under American ownership due to concerns over national security and data privacy. Lawmakers fear that, as a Chinese-owned company, ByteDance could potentially allow the Chinese government access to user data from the app\u2019s millions of American users.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he is monitoring security issues but emphasised there are American buyers and that extensions will continue until a resolution is reached. Previous attempts to spin off TikTok into a US-owned company fell through after China objected following US tariff announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who used TikTok during his campaign, expressed personal support for the platform, noting that young people and his own children enjoy it. As a result, a ban appears increasingly unlikely in the near term. While the decision has drawn some scrutiny, no legal challenges have emerged, unlike with other executive orders.<\/p>\n<p>Public opinion is divided: a recent Pew Research Center survey shows support for a ban has dropped from 50 per cent in March 2023 to about one-third, with nearly a third opposed and a third unsure. Data security remains the top concern for those who favor banning the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump called TikTok security concerns &#8220;overrated&#8221; and said he will keep extending its US ban deadline. Congress wants&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,2],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tiktok","tag-donald-trump","tag-tiktok","cs-entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}