Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that TikTok will have to stop operating in the United States if China does not approve a deal for the sale of the Chinese-owned short video app that is ...

TikTok could go dark in the U.S. again if President Donald Trump does not strike a deal with China by Sept. 17. The short-form video app has been under scrutiny for months, as some government ...

TikTok will “go dark” if China does not cut a deal with the Trump administration that transfers control of the app’s technology and algorithm, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday.

Last month, President Donald Trump extended by 90 days to Sept. 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok. Dado Ruvic / REUTERS U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ...

President Trump is starting “not to give a crap” if TikTok briefly goes dark as the end to the latest ban extension looms, On The Money has learned. Trump has tired of China dangling TikTok as a ...

In a wide-ranging CNBC Squawk Box interview on Tuesday, Bessent pointed to the turning point: "President Trump made it clear that he would have been willing to let TikTok go dark, that we were not ...

Once again, the Trump administration is hyping a deal that could see TikTok finally sold to US owners to avoid a nationwide ban that Congress successfully argued was otherwise necessary to protect ...

Turkey blocked access to all main social media platforms for about 24 hours since the evening of Sunday, September 7, 2025 X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and WhatsApp have all been impacted, ...