“US President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that “TikTok is coming back” after the app was shut down in the US ahead of a ban that was due to take effect. Source: Trump during a rally in Washington, D.C. on the eve of the inauguration, quoted by CNN Trump’s direct speech: “Starting today, TikTok is coming back.””, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
US President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that “TikTok is coming back” after the app was shut down in the US ahead of a ban that was due to take effect.
Source: Trump during a rally in Washington the country on the eve of the inauguration, quoted by CNN
Direct speech Trump: “Starting today, TikTok is coming back.”
Details: On Sunday, Trump said he would issue an executive order delaying the no-investment law after he is inaugurated.
According to CNN, after several hours, the TikTok app and web page began to return to American users. The social network linked its return to Trump, greeting users with a message: “Thank you for your patience and support. Thanks to the efforts of President Trump, TikTok is coming back to the US!”
Trump said at his rally at the Capitol One Arena that “we won because of TikTok” and “young voices.”
Direct speech Trump: “That’s why I like TikTok.”
“I said we need to save TikTok because we’re talking about a huge — who in this audience uses TikTok? A lot? Yes, it’s very popular. And frankly, we have no choice, we have to save it.”
What preceded: The day before, the social network TikTok stopped working in the United States less than two hours before the ban was supposed to take effect.
Trump promised after his inauguration on January 20 to delay the blocking of the Chinese platform TikTok and advocated for the United States to acquire 50% of the company.
We will remind:
US President Joe Biden decided not to ban the TikTok social network, leaving the decision to his successor Donald Trump.
TikTok will spend $50,000 on a holiday party celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration to celebrate influencers who helped spread his campaign message, according to the event’s organizer.
Chinese officials are considering an option for Elon Musk to buy TikTok’s US operations if the company fails to avoid a controversial ban on the app.
The US has considered banning TikTok unless its parent company ByteDance sells the platform. Meanwhile, Americans, fearing the ban, are actively switching to another Chinese application — RedNote.
On Friday, January 17, the Supreme Court ruled that TikTok’s ban could go into effect this weekend, rejecting an appeal by the owners of the popular app who argued that the ban violated the First Amendment to the Constitution.