Trump advances TikTok deal with new executive order

The TikTok logo is displayed outside TikTok offices on March 12, 2024 in Culver City, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images North America

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President Trump gave his formal blessing on Thursday to a deal for a consortium of mostly U.S. investors to take over the short video app TikTok, signing an executive order green-lighting the spinoff and saying it has “good controls” in terms of security and safety.

TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, but a law passed last year requires the parent company to divest or the app will be banned in the United States over

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