Welcome to the TechMe Brain Hope for Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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From the remember this is still going on in the background file, President Trump apparently plans to sign an executive order this week to grant TikTok another 90-day extension in enforcement of that sale or ban law.

This marks his third extension of this saga.

Quoting CNN business, President Trump will sign an additional executive order this week

to keep TikTok up and running, Caroline Levitt, White House Press Secretary said in a statement,

as he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension will

last 90 days, which the administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed,

so that the American people can continue to use TikTok

with the assurance that their data is safe and secure, end quote.

Trump's latest enforcement delay raises questions about the status of a deal that could

secure TikTok's long-term future in the United States.

The Chinese government has offered little public indication that it would be willing to approve

a sale beyond suggesting that any

deal could not include TikTok's algorithm, which has been called the app's secret sauce.

Tuesday's announcement comes after the United States and China agreed on a framework to ease

export controls a move that's expected to ease tensions and prevent further escalation of export

and other restrictions between the two countries. It's not clear whether a TikTok

deal is included in the framework, but cooperation between the two sides could make an agreement

to transfer control of the app to a U.S. buyer more likely. Earlier on Tuesday, Trump told reporters

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