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TikTok’s days in the United States are numbered, unless it can make a deal that satisfies the Trump administration in less than two months.

On Friday, the administration said it’s banning Chinese-owned WeChat and TikTok from U.S. app stores, barring new users from downloading either service. WeChat features will immediately be limited, but TikTok will have several weeks in which to make a deal with Oracle or another organization before its features are cut off.

The New York Times reported:

The restrictions will ban the transferring of funds or processing of payments through WeChat within the United States as of Sunday. In the case of WeChat, the restrictions will also prevent any company from offering internet hosting, content delivery networks, internet transit or peering services to WeChat, or using the app’s code in other software or services in the United States.

Those same prohibitions on providing services go into effect on Nov. 12 for TikTok.

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