Donald Trump says he is giving TikTok another 75 days to find a US buyer

TikTok is owned by China’s ByteDance (AP)

President Donald Trump has said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the US for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.

Congress had mandated that the platform be divested from China by January 19 or barred in the US on national security grounds, but Mr Trump moved unilaterally to extend the deadline to this weekend, as he sought to negotiate an agreement to keep it running.