US President Donald Trump has extended the deadline to comply with a law that requires TikTok’s parent company “ByteDance” to sell the popular video app to an American buyer. The 75-day extension comes as the administration finalises a plan to keep the popular app running in the US. The social media platform, which is used...
Lily Jamali BBC tech correspondent, San Francisco Getty Images President Donald Trump says he is “very close” to brokering a deal to find a buyer for TikTok, which faces a US ban if its Chinese owner does not sell the app by the weekend. A bipartisan law passed by Congress last year mandates TikTok’s Chinese...
Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Getty Images The list of would-be buyers for TikTok in the US – both rumoured and confirmed – has grown longer as the deadline for deciding its future looms. The social media giant faces being shut down in the US unless it sells to an American company by 5 April. The...
Few of this morning’s papers avoid mentioning the global trade war Donald Trump kicked off on Wednesday, with many reporting a version of the banner used on the front of the Daily Mirror: “World faces economic war”. Under the headline “Trading blows” the paper reports universal 10% tariffs will be placed on all imports into...
Former Wales captain Siwan Lillicrap was involved in the dance and said she did not have a problem with it as it was more about celebrating the occasion. “We’ve got to let people be themselves and be the personalities they are,” she told the Scrum V podcast. “I feel for Jaz, I think some of...
Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Hertfordshire Family handout Maia Walsh had at least four TikTok accounts, a pre-inquest review heard TikTok will be the focus of an inquest into the death of a girl who used the app before her death, a coroner said. Maia Walsh, 13, posted “I don’t think I’ll live past 14” on...
Tom Gerken & Tom Singleton Technology reporters Kayleigh Gresty Sadie said she didn’t think the filter should be allowed on TikTok without some kind of warning A viral filter which made people appear overweight has been removed from TikTok, after the BBC reported it had sparked a wave of user criticism. Known as a “chubby...
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