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The saga of TikTok with its 1.7 billion users may be entering its next act. TikTok is owned by Bytedance, a Chinese company. It has 170 million American users. The United States (US) business may soon be hived off in a deal with the approval of the US and Chinese governments.
TikTok has been banned in the US since January 2025. There have been back-and-forth negotiations about an enforced selloff of TikTok US for years. Assuming this happens, (it seems as certain as anything involving the inconsistent Donald Trump administration can be), this would be a
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