President Joe Biden will not enforce a ban on TikTok that is set to take effect on January 20, the day before he leaves office. The decision leaves the fate of the popular social media app in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump. Congress mandated TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance, to divest the company by January 19. While Trump previously expressed support for banning TikTok, he has since pledged to keep it available in the US. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to attend Trump's inauguration.
The official said the outgoing administration was leaving the implementation of the law – and the potential enforcement of the ban – to Trump. — ReutersUS President Joe Biden won’t enforce a ban on the social media app TikTok that is set to take effect a day before he leaves office on Jan 20, a US official said Thursday, leaving its fate in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump .
Trump, who once called to ban the app, has since pledged to keep it available in the US, though his transition team has not said how they intend to accomplish that. “It’s clear that more time is needed to find an American buyer and not disrupt the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans, of so many influencers who have built up a good network of followers,” Schumer said Thursday on the Senate floor.
TikTok CEO’s is expected to be seated on the dais for the inauguration along with tech billionaires Elon Musk, who is CEO of SpaceX, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to two people with the matter. The people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning.
“He’s a deal maker. I don’t want to get ahead of our executive orders, but we’re going to create this space to put that deal in place,“ he added.
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