TikTok, a popular social media app, will remain available in the United States after the Trump administration extended its deadline for another 75 days.

According to CNBC, President Donald Trump is planning on signing an executive order to keep the app running until mid-June.

Originally the parent company, ByteDance, had until April 5 to divest the application, but with the extension ByteDance now has more time to deliberate their options.

A divestment is the act of selling off a business, or businesses, or of no longer investing money into something, according to the Cambridge Dictionary.

Trump signed an executive order extending the ban through April 5, however, ByteDance has yet to respond which could lead to the app’s potential removal or change in ownership.

UK junior neuroscience major, Emma Clemons, said TikTok has allowed people to come together and engage with different communities.

“I have friends all the time that are like, ‘you should get TikTok,’” Clemons said. “But I also have people who tell me, ‘No, don’t get TikTok.’”

Clemons said she has never felt the need to get the app, even with societal influences and the possibility of “missing out.”

“I’ve heard people say it’s too time consuming, that it’s just another thing for me to waste time scrolling on,” Clemons said.

Freshman biology and neuroscience major, Harsh Patel, said he likes using the application in his free time, but hopes the creators share more about the behind the scenes of how the app works.

“The best outcome for TikTok would honestly be TikTok not getting banned, but that we’re more informed about how it manages its content,” Patel said. “Probably a check on if information on there is true or not, make sure data is not getting leaked or anything.”

Sophomore economics and environmental science major, Briana Mcate, said it would not affect her as much, but could potentially affect how younger generations access information.

“A lot of people now get most of their information on TikTok and I feel like that’s how they figure out a lot of political issues or information,” Mcate said. “I feel like if they (younger generations) grew up on it, they don’t really know what it’s like without it.”

Mcate said she thinks TikTok will most likely have another deadline extension.

“I just think this has been happening for a really long time and I think I’d be fine with or without TikTok,” Mcate said. “I feel like a lot of it, when TikTok came back the first time, it felt like it was political propaganda. So I feel like the same thing is going to happen this time, someone’s going to buy it and it’s probably going to be something political.”

According to USA Today, Trump told reporters on April 2, 2025, he would “consider” lowering tariff prices on China to encourage ByteDance to sell the app and would extend the ban if the deal was not signed by the deadline.

“If it’s not finished, it’s not a big deal. We’ll just extend it,” Trump said at a press conference.

Trump announced TikTok’s extension on Truth Social, a social media platform owned by Trump, saying the deal “requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed.”

According to PBS, during the first potential ban in January, Trump signed an order delaying the ban for 75 days.

“It’s as if nothing ever happened,” Director of Cornell University’s Tech Policy Institute in the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy, Sarah Kreps said.

According to The Associated Press, Kreps said there was a lack of bipartisan consensus about the app and this brings a risk for national security.

The Supreme Court deliberated and issued a unanimous ruling before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, deciding that “national security concerns overcame usual First Amendment affirmation.”

The courts decided that national security was more concerning with the apps usage even though the First Amendment would be under “intermediate scrutiny.”

“Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary,” the courts said. “For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the challenged provisions do not violate petitioners’ First Amendment rights.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a separate court opinion brief discussing the ruling and “harvesting of information” from Tiktok user data.

“According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, TikTok can access ‘any data’ stored in a consenting user’s ‘contact list’ — including names, photos, and other personal information about unconsenting third parties,” Gorsuch said.

Gorsuch said the app had access to users’ locations, which could track federal employees or contractors.

“The record before us establishes that TikTok mines data both from TikTok users and about millions of others who do not consent to share their information,” Gorsuch said.

Several companies have said they want to purchase the app, including Project Liberty, Perplexity AI and MrBeast, according to Economic Times.

“We do not want TikTok to ‘go dark,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the deal.”

TikTok will be rediscussed by the Trump administration in mid-June with its new extension deadline in place.