A divestment would nominally clear that hurdle — but M2 would also be built by ByteDance, raising questions about how walled-off user data really would be from Chinese authorities. In turn… ...

TikTok has suspended its sponsorships of TIFF, the Junos and other marquee Canadian cultural events ahead of Canadian offices being ordered to close.

There were 36 hours of mad frenzy as TikTok executives and lawyers sought and failed to get a last-minute reprieve from Biden — and then landed one from Trump.

It is not clear how many times Trump can — or will — keep extending the ban as the government continues to try to negotiate a deal for TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance.