Daily Cuts - Tick-tock – ban looms, leaving fate of TikTok in the US up in the air

16 Jan 2025 09:50AM
13 mins
ByteDance’s TikTok faces a deadline of Jan 19 to find a US buyer in order to continue operating in the country, and the Supreme Court has signalled it is unlikely to oppose the law imposing that condition. Bloomberg News earlier reported that Chinese officials were considering selling the company’s US operations to Mr Elon Musk’s social media platform X. But TikTok labelled the report as “pure fiction”. Will TikTok survive the ban? We find out.