Posted on 07/06/2025 1:27:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the United States ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors, The Information reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources. This comes as U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he will start talking to China on Monday or Tuesday about a possible TikTok deal.
He said the United States "pretty much" has a deal on the sale of the TikTok short-video app.
TikTok has developed a plan to launch the new app to U.S. app stores on September 5, the report said. Last month, Trump extended to September 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok. The report added that TikTok users will eventually have to download the new app to be able to continue using the service, although the existing app will work until March of next year, though the timeline could change.
TikTok did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. A deal had been in the works earlier this year to spin off TikTok's U.S. operations into a new U.S.-based firm, majority-owned and operated by U.S. investors. That was put on hold after China indicated it would not approve it following Trump's announcements of steep tariffs on Chinese goods.
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A US government approved TikTok, managed by big tech… no thanks.
Right now on the original TikTok app, they're censoring Conservatives.
It will probably get 100× worse on the American version of TikTok.
All newest and the latest and greatest back doors.
You couldn’t be more incorrect. Tick-tock was a hotbed of conservatism during the election and still Liz.
Reread you. It will get 100 times worse. But in last election it was an absolute hotbed of conservatism.
CIA controlled.
Correct. Trump used TikTok to help him win the election.
Now Conservatives are complaining that they are being censored for their views.
It appears that moderators on the app lean left. I haven't heard of an actual policy by TikTok to "go after Conservatives".
Anyway, it's nothing compared to what is about to happen. TikTok will turn into Twitter 1.0 with the American management. Unless Elon's in charge.
All of this will be good for X.
Are they taking out direct reporting to the People’s Liberation Army, or are they going to add reporting to the NSA?
My only problem with X is how utterly toxic leftist it is in the comments, and X is comment centered. The part I like about TikTok is how you don’t see comments unless you seek them out.
But you do have a point. Ian Carroll is just one who has started facing a lot of censorship there.
So yeah, I see your point.
It better not go anywhere.
I need my daily DOGE Dog videos.😉
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