Hong Kong (AP) – Tiktok has returned to Apple’s app stores and Google in the US, after President Donald Trump has delayed the enforcement of a tap ban.
Tiktok, which is managed by the Chinese technology company Bytedance, was removed from Apple and Google’s app stores on January 18 to meet a law required to dispose of the app or to be banned in the US
The popular Social Media app, which has more than 170 million American users, has previously suspended its services in the US for a day before he recovers the service Trump guarantees that he would postpone the prohibition of the app. The Tiktok -Service suspension has briefly given thousands of users Migrate to RednoteA Chinese social media app, while she calls herself ‘tick refugees’.
The TiktokApp became available after almost a month to download again in the US Apple App Store and Google Play Store. On Trump’s first day at the office, he signed an executive order to extend the enforcement of a ban on Tiktok until April 5.
Tiktok has long had to deal with problems in the US, whereby the US government claims that its Chinese ownership and access to the data of millions of Americans is making a national security risk.
Tiktok has denied accusations that the American user data has shared on behalf of the Chinese government and argued that the law required that it is divested or prohibited is contrary to the rights of the first change of its US users.
During Trump’s first year of office, he supported the prohibition of Tiktok, but later changed thoughts and claimed that he had a “warm place” for the app. Tiktok CEO Shou Chew was one of those present during Trump’s inauguration ceremony.
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Trump has suggested that Tiktok could be jointly owned, where half of his ownership is American. Potential buyers are real estate mogul Frank McCourt, shark tank investor Kevin O’Leary and popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MRBeast.