On December 7, Judge Nichols separately granted a preliminary injunction blocking the US Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on TikTok that would have effectively barred its use in the United States. Under pressure from the US government, ByteDance has been in talks for months to finalise a deal with Walmart and Oracle to shift TikTok's US assets into a new entity aimed to satisfy the divestiture order. TikTok, which has over 100 million US users, denies the allegation. The administration contends TikTok poses national security concerns as the personal data of US users could be obtained by China's government. But over a week has passed and the department has not gone to court seeking to compel divestiture. President Donald Trump's order, issued in August, gave the Justice Department the power to enforce the divestiture order once the deadline expired. A lawyer for TikTok, Beth Brinkmann, said during the court hearing there are "ongoing talks" over the app's fate. On December 4, the Trump administration opted not to grant TikTok-owner ByteDance a new extension of an order requiring the company to divest TikTok's US assets.
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