The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, just weeks before another deadline approaches for TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance , to sell the popular social media platform or face a ban in the U.S.

A 2024 law required TikTok to stop operating by January 19 of this year unless ByteDance had completed divesting the app’s U.S. assets or demonstrated significant progress toward a sale. U.S. President Donald Trump opted not to enforce the law after he began his second term as president on January 20 . He first extended the deadline to early April , then to June 19 and then again to September 17 .

The new account, using the handle @WhiteHouse , gained more than 100,000 followers as of Wednesday morning. The bio reads, “Welcome to the Golden Age of A

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