US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law banning the app if it is not sold. The social media platform briefly went dark in the US days before Trump took office, after the Supreme Court denied a bid by its Chinese owner ByteDance to overturn the legislation.

As he promised Sunday, President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive action that delays enforcement of the TikTok ban for 75 days.

A number of social-media posts claim that the Chinese-owned app is blocking content that is critical of the new president.

On his first full day in office Tuesday, President Donald Trump continued sweeping actions, including ordering the shuttering of all executive branch diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and ordering all employees working in such offices to be placed on leave.

During his first term as president, Donald Trump led the effort to ban TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing site he said posed threats to U.S. national security.

Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders on Monday, ranging from DEI initiatives to the TikTok ban. What to know.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the US could have "a joint venture" with TikTok.

Donald Trump appeared in first television interview since his Jan 20 inauguration, and spoke in detail about TikTok security risks, illegal immigration into the US and Joe Biden's pardons.

TikTok was banned in the U.S. due to national security concerns over its Chinese ownership, prompting federal action requiring ByteDance to divest. Despite delays in enforcement, the app remains unavailable in US app stores until a sale to a U.

Trump's most recent plan for TikTok centers on demands that the United States be given a 50% ownership position in the app under any proposed deal.