{"id":949980,"date":"2025-07-26T07:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T01:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949980"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:00:14","slug":"tiktok-could-go-dark-in-the-us-if-trumps-commerce-secretary-sounds-alarm-over-apps-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/26\/tiktok-could-go-dark-in-the-us-if-trumps-commerce-secretary-sounds-alarm-over-apps-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok could go dark in the US if&#8230;: Trump&#8217;s Commerce Secretary sounds alarm over app&#8217;s fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future of TikTok in the US remains in the hands of hands of Chinese officials, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said. He said TikTok will go dark unless China agrees to a deal in which American owners take control of the popular social media app and its algorithm. <\/p>\n<p>Howard Lutnick said TikTok will go dark for the video app\u2019s millions of American users unless China agrees by a Sept. 17 deadline to a deal that will give the US owners majority control over the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of TikTok in the US remains in the hands of hands of Chinese officials, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said. He said TikTok will go dark unless China agrees to a deal in which American owners take control of the popular social media app and its algorithm. Howard Lutnick said TikTok will go dark for the video app\u2019s millions of American users unless China agrees by a Sept. 17 deadline to a deal that will give the US owners majority control over the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}