Negotiations for Microsoft to buy the US operations of TikTok are on hold after Trump threatened to bar the social media app and came out against the sale.
It also said Trump’s threats and opposition to the deal had prompted TikTok to make further concessions, including adding up to 10,000 jobs in the US over the next three years.
Earlier media reports had suggested Trump would require that the app’s US operations be divested from ByteDance, but he instead announced a ban. “With any Internet platform, we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own,” Granick said in a statement.
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