(FILES) The TikTok logo is displayed on signage outside TikTok social media app company offices in Culver City, California on September 30, 2025. TikTok's European business should be "in European hands", following the example of the United States, Germany's Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer said on May 12, 2026. ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, ceded control of the platform's US operations to a majority American-owned joint venture, in response to a threatened ban in the United States. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)