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# TikTok seeks extension from U.S. as Thursday divesture deadline looms

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TikTok seeks extension from U.S. as Thursday divesture deadline looms
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Video app’s Chinese parent company says Trump administration has stopped responding

The U.S. has argued that it is trying to prevent data on American TikTok... — The U.S. has argued that it is trying to prevent data on American TikTok users from being shared with the Chinese government.

Associated Press

TikTok’s Chinese parent company asked a U.S. appeals court for additional time to work out a potential divestiture of the popular video-sharing app, citing a lack of communication from the Trump administration with a Thursday deadline looming.

The petition, filed by ByteDance Ltd. late Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, said the U.S. government’s decision to force a TikTok deal was “arbitrary and capricious” and denied the company of its due process under the law. The company said it had been in extensive discussions with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to address its concerns but that feedback had essentially stopped in recent weeks, even as the deadline approached.

The U.S. has argued that it is trying to prevent data on American TikTok users from being shared with China’s authoritarian government, which TikTok says it would never do.

President Trump issued an executive order in August stating that TikTok must be sold to an American company or it would be banned in the U.S.

An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.

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