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TikTok should be co-owned by US, Trump says as app is restored for users

By Mike Swift ( January 19, 2025, 21:57 GMT | Insight) -- TikTok was back on the screens of 170 million smartphones in the US today, with President-elect Donald Trump saying he'll sign an executive order upon taking office tomorrow that would extend the time for the app to divest itself of Chinese ownership. Trump proposed that the US take an unprecedented ownership of half of the social media platform, saying such a structure could allow TikTok to be "worth hundreds of billions of dollars — maybe trillions."Within the space of 12 hours Sunday, an unprecedented legal block of TikTok took effect — and then was dramatically removed — with President-elect Donald Trump planning to sign an executive order after taking office Monday that would keep the social media platform used by half the US population online at least temporarily....

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