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Trump signs executive order backing TikTok sale plan

( September 26, 2025, 02:58 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday outlining a plan to sell TikTok’s US operations to a group of American and international investors, saying the deal would satisfy national-security requirements set out in a 2024 law. The order calls for stripping TikTok and affiliated apps from foreign control and placing oversight of the platform’s algorithms, source code and content moderation in a new US-based joint venture. Sensitive American user data would be housed on domestic cloud servers run by a US company, while federal security partners would monitor software updates, algorithm changes and data flows. The statement follows: ...

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