TikTok secures White House deal to stay online in US

New joint venture will run operations a year and a half after Congress voted to ban the social media app unless it was sold

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New joint venture will run operations a year and a half after Congress voted to ban the social media app unless it was sold

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Move comes despite the social media platform due to be banned in the US within weeks

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The app would have gone dark if China’s ByteDance had not divested by Wednesday.

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The app was supposed to be banned in the US after its Chinese owner refused to sell it by a January deadline.

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The social media platform had faced a ban in the US over national security concerns.

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The new account comes as Trump has three times delayed implementing a ‘sell or ban’ law for the Chinese-owned app.

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The White House said a deal could be signed "in the coming days", but Beijing is yet to comment.

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