The move is aimed at resolvingpolicymakers' concernsthat the foreign-owned TikTok may be a national security risk.
The US government is conducting a national security review of TikTok and is preparing to make a policy recommendation to Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters this week at the White House.
ByteDance has been consideringchanges to its corporate structureand had reportedly already been looking into the possibility of selling a majority stake in TikTok.
Microsoft(MSFT)is in talks to acquire TikTok,according to the New York Times, citing a person with knowledge of the discussions. Microsoft did not immediately reply to a request for comment from CNN Business
Critics of TikTok worry that the data it collects on its US users could end up in the hands of the Chinese government, though TikTok has said it stores its data outside of China and that it would resist any attempts by Beijing to seize the information.
Cybersecurity experts have said TikTok's potential risk to national securityis largely theoreticaland that there is no evidence to suggest that TikTok's user data has been compromised by Chinese intelligence.
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