Less than three weeks before the presidential election, TikTok is still struggling to consistently enforce its long-standing ban on political advertising, a new report finds.

In January, TikTok took itself offline for about 14 hours — and app stores removed access to the platform in the United States — after the law’s initial sale-or-ban deadline passed with no deal.

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President Trump said Thursday that he would “probably” extend the deadline for a sale of China-owned TikTok if terms aren't reached before a 75-day window for negotiations expires on April 5.

Microsoft, which declined to comment on the president’s remarks, had discussed buying TikTok in 2020, when Trump tried to force a sale of the app in his first term.

Trump in announcing the extended deadline for a TikTok sale brought up the tariffs and said his administration would continue working with China on a deal.

A law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app by Jan. 19 or face a total US ban was upheld in US appeals court on Friday – setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown ...

“I’d like to see TikTok remain alive.” Here’s what we know about what TikTok’s future could look like as the sale-or-ban deadline fast approaches. How did we get here?

How TikTok can still avoid a ban, according to experts Ban is set to take effect this week, unless TikTok cuts ties with parent firm.

That’s despite the platform’s ban on all political ads in place since 2019. The ads never appeared on TikTok because Global Witness pulled them before they went online.

An app just for U.S. users, which looks set to run on an algorithm and data system that’s separate from TikTok’s global platform, would pave the way for a possible sale.