U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says TikTok will be forced to go dark in the U.S. if China does not approve a sale of the company’s operations there. U.S. President Donald Trump has set a deadline of September 17 for that to happen.
00:00U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick says TikTok will be forced to go dark in the U.S. if China does not approve a sale of the company's operations there.
00:09The globally popular app has around 170 million U.S. users, but lawmakers there have raised concerns over its ties to China.
00:18Congress last year passed a bill that would ban the app unless Beijing-based owner ByteDance sold it to a U.S. buyer by January 19th.
00:26U.S. President Donald Trump has extended that deadline to September 17th.
