Reuters report said that a new application would be a way to pave the company’s sale in the country
It denied a report that it would be preparing an independent application for US users, which would pave the way for sale and allow the social network, controlled by., To continue operating in the United States.
In a statement released on the last Wednesday (9.Jul.2025), Tiktok contested a report from who claimed that the company was developing “A new version specific to the USA”From the application, as preparation for a possible sale coordinated by the US President (Republican party). Tiktok has classified the report as“factually inaccurate”And said the investigation was“based on anonymous and uninformed sources”.
In April 2024, the then president (Democratic Party) to ban Tiktok for national security reasons, unless Bytedance sold the app until January 19, 2025.
When the deadline won without a sale, Tiktok was removed from the application stores. And, but it ended after Trump assumed the US presidency and postponed the application of the law.
Since then, Trump has extended the deadline for sale. The new deadline is scheduled.
Since taking office in January, the US President has repeatedly mentioned that there is an ongoing agreement involving Tiktok, but the sale has not yet materialized.
In an interview with a cable TV channel in June, Trump said he found a group of “very rich people”Interested in buying Tiktok operations in the US, but acknowledged that the Chinese government would need to approve the deal.
In early July, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, that he would start talking to China about a possible Tiktok sale, saying the US “practically”They already had an agreement to sell the application. These conversations were expected to be held last week.
The report of Reuters He stated that this US -exclusive Tiktok version would work with an algorithm and data system separate from the global version of the platform.
In August 2020, the Chinese government added technologies related to personalized recommendations based on data analysis and interactive interfaces with artificial intelligence to an export control list. This means that the Tiktok – you have commercial activity is based fundamentally on recommendation algorithms – would need Beijing approval if you wanted to sell the application to a foreign buyer.
The threat of being banned in the United States is only 1 of the challenges Tiktok faces outside China. The app is also being the target of regulatory scrutiny in Europe. On July 10, Ireland’s (Data Protection Commission) opened an investigation against Tiktok for transferring personal data from users of (European economic space) to servers located in China.
The EEE is an economic bloc that includes the 27 European Union member countries, besides Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
The investigation was opened after Tiktok revealed in April that some data from EEE users had been stored on servers in China – which contradicted the company’s evidence in a previous DPC investigation. Tiktok said the data was immediately deleted. He also added that the fact that he took the error demonstrated his commitment to user data protection.
In May, the DPC (R $ 3.45 billion), after concluding that the application violated the RGPD (General Data Protection Regulation) of (European Union) not “check, guarantee and demonstrateThat EEE user data remotely accessed by employees in China were subject to a level of protection equivalent to that required in the EU.
This report was originally in English by the global cash on 14.Jul.2025. Was translated and republished by Poder360 under mutual content sharing agreement.
