TikTok, one of the most popular social media platforms in the United States, has four days to reach a deal divesting it of Chinese ownership before it goes dark. The app, which is owned by China’s ByteDance, boasts roughly 170 million monthly active users across the country but faces extinction on April 5 if it fails to sell operations to a U.S. buyer. Despite Trump’s angling to work out a deal to create joint ownership of the app, China has been adamant it doesn’t want to do anything that would put its access to data gathered by the app at risk. However, it is the fact that TikTok is gathering information about its users that can be funneled directly back to the Chinese Communist Party that pushed lawmakers to deem it a national security threat in the first place.With Trump’s Day One executive order, the company and the Trump administration now have an interim period, until early April, to hammer out a deal that satisfies both parties. Do you think that US should partly own Tiktok
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