Instagram would plan to launch its short video functionality, real, as a separate application, because the future of Tiktok belonging to Chinese remains uncertain in the United States.
The owner of the social media platform, Adam Mosseri, informed the personnel of the potential decision this week, according to the commercial publication focused on the technological industry, the information, who cited a person who heard the remarks.
The parent company of Instagram Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.
In January, US President Donald Trump granted Tiktok an extension of 75 days to comply with a law signed by the president of the time, Joe Biden, which requires a sale or a ban on the platform.
At the time, he launched the possibility of a joint venture managing the company, claiming that it was looking for a partnership of 50 to 50 between “the United States” and its Chinese owner bytedance. But he did not give more details on how it could work.
The Biden administration had argued that Tiktok, which has 170 million American users, could be used by China as a tool for spying and political manipulation.
Opponents of a ban cited freedom of expression as a reason to keep the platform open.
In 2018, Meta launched an autonomous application called Lasso to compete with Tiktok, but she was then closed.
