{"id":987490,"date":"2026-01-24T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987490"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:06:40","slug":"tiktok-in-the-us-goes-american-but-questions-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/tiktok-in-the-us-goes-american-but-questions-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok in the US goes American, but questions remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jan 24, 2026 -After a long legal saga, TikTok has established a majority American-owned joint venture to operate its US business, deflecting the threat of a ban over its Chinese ownership. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the potential consequences of the deal &#8212; if any &#8212; for users and beyond: <\/p>\n<p>What it means for users <\/p>\n<p>Whether the 200 million users in the United States will notice any difference in their online experience remains unclear. After the deal, users don&#8217;t need to download a new app, though they were prompted to accept new terms of service covering &#8220;new types of location information&#8221; and data usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Jan 24, 2026 -After a long legal saga, TikTok has established a majority American-owned joint venture to operate its US business, deflecting the threat of a ban over its Chinese ownership. Here is a look at the potential consequences of the deal &#8212; if any &#8212; for users and beyond: What it means for users Whether the 200 million users in the United States will notice any difference in their online experience remains unclear. After the deal, users don&#8217;t need to download a new app, though they were prompted to accept new terms of service covering &#8220;new types of [&hellip;]<\/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-987490","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\/987490","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=987490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}