President Biden received’t implement a TikTok ban set to take impact Sunday, a U.S. official advised the Related Press on Thursday.
Congress handed a legislation requiring Chinese language firm ByteDance to promote TikTok by Jan. 19 on nationwide safety grounds. The official advised the AP it will be as much as the incoming Trump administration to resolve whether or not to implement the ban or not.
Trump has wavered in his assist for the social media app. After beforehand calling for a ban, he has since pledged to maintain it obtainable. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is predicted to attend Trump’s inauguration on Monday and be seated with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Mike Waltz, Trump’s choose for nationwide safety adviser, mentioned on “Fox & Friends” Thursday the legislation “allows for an extension as long as a viable deal is on the table.”
An try by Senate Democrats to increase the deadline was blocked by Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, who known as TikTok “a Chinese Communist spy app that addicts our kids, harvests their data, targets them with harmful and manipulative content, and spreads communist propaganda.”
ByteDance argued in entrance of the Supreme Court docket final week, and the judicial physique may hand down a call Friday.
Earlier this week, because the deadline approached, “TikTok refugees” started flocking to Xiaohongshu, an identical Chinese language app.
