Barely greater than 12 hours after TikTok went darkish within the United States, the video-sharing app is coming again on-line.
“In settlement with our service suppliers, TikTok is within the strategy of restoring service,” the corporate mentioned in a press release. “We thank President Trump for offering the mandatory readability and assurance to our service suppliers that they’ll face no penalties offering TikTok to over 170 million Americans and permitting over 7 million small companies to thrive.”
Earlier at present, President-elect Donald Trump posted that he could be issuing an government order that will delay the ban, and that his order would “affirm that there can be no legal responsibility for any firm that helped preserve TikTok from going darkish earlier than my order.”
That appeared to be sufficient reassurance for TikTok and its service suppliers. The TikTok app was already working once more for a number of TechCrunch writers by the point the corporate issued its assertion shortly after 12:30pm Eastern at present.
Trump additionally indicated that his “preliminary thought” on a deal to maintain TikTok working within the U.S. would contain “a three way partnership between the present homeowners and/or new homeowners whereby the U.S. will get a 50% possession.”
In its assertion, TikTok mentioned it should “will work with President Trump on a long-term resolution that retains TikTok within the United States.”
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