January 21, 2025 – On January 20th, local time, former U.S. President Trump signed an executive order, temporarily suspending the implementation of the “ban unless sold” law targeting the short-video social media platform TikTok for the next 75 days.
According to previous reports, on April 24th of last year, President Biden signed a bill passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives, requiring ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese entity within 270 days. Failure to comply would result in the application being banned in the United States.

On January 17th, local time, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in support of the ban on TikTok in the United States. Consequently, on January 18th, TikTok notified its American users that due to the official ban taking effect on the 19th, the TikTok software would temporarily cease service to users.
However, after a 14-hour outage, TikTok gradually resumed its services. Sources close to ByteDance revealed to multiple media outlets, including Kechuangban Daily, that ByteDance had not reached any agreement with the U.S. government. Instead, it was the U.S. side’s decision to temporarily suspend the “ban unless sold” act, allowing TikTok to resume operations.
Trump had previously announced on social media that he would issue an executive order on Monday (January 20th) to extend the deadline before the TikTok ban takes legal effect. He also stated that until the executive order is issued, any company assisting TikTok to avoid shutdown would not be held responsible. Additionally, Trump expressed his hope that the U.S. could “own 50% of the future joint venture” in order to “save TikTok.”