The social network TikTok announced to its users in the United States the possible temporary closure of operations after an agreement was not reached on the purchase of the platform from the American university.
This Sunday, a law comes into effect that requires TikTok to change ownership and stop being owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, or stop operating in the United States.
TikTok, which claims to have 170 million users in the United States, has told its users that the application will no longer be available as soon as they open it starting this Sunday, January 19.
The app's closure is due to a bipartisan act by Congress, which ordered the platform to cut ties with its China-based parent company by Sunday.
However, President-elect Donald Trump, who will be sworn in on January 20, told ABC News in an interview that he is likely to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid being banned in the United States.
The president stressed that the application should not be eliminated and that options are being studied to save it.
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