TikTok finalizes deal with China to avoid U.S. ban, White House official says
Washington — A year after a law that effectively banned TikTok from the U.S. went into effect, China and the U.S. have signed off on a deal, according to a White House official. The bipartisan law, passed in 2024, required that TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, sever ties with the social media platform’s American operations