“Biden won’t ban TikTok, leaving app’s fate to Trump – APBiden won’t ban TikTok before handover to Trump. The newly elected president promised to save the app, and the CEO of TikTok will receive a VIP seat at the inauguration along with other tech leaders.”, — write on: unn.ua
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Last year, Congress, in a law signed by Biden, required TikTok’s parent company in China, ByteDance, to sell the company by Jan. 19, the day before the new president’s inauguration. The official said the outgoing administration is leaving implementation of the law — and potential enforcement of the ban — to Trump.
Trump, who once called for the app to be banned, has since vowed to keep it available in the US, although his transition team has not said how they intend to achieve that.
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TikTok CEO Shaw Ji-chu is expected to attend Trump’s inauguration and get one of the best seats at the podium, amid the president-elect’s national security adviser Mike Waltz signaling that the new administration may take steps to “prevent TikTok from go into the shadows.”
Waltz said Thursday on Fox News’ Fox & Friends that the federal law that could ban TikTok by Sunday also “allows for an extension if there’s a viable deal on the table.”
Attempts to save TikTok, like attempts to ban it in the US, have crossed party lines. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said he spoke with Biden on Thursday to push for an extension of the deadline to ban TikTok.
“Obviously, it takes more time to find an American buyer and not disrupt the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans, many influential people who have built a good network of followers,” Schumer said Thursday on the Senate floor.
Democrats tried to pass legislation on Wednesday that would have extended the deadline, but Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas blocked it. Cotton, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said TikTok had plenty of time to find a buyer.
“TikTok is a Chinese communist spy app that is addictive to our children, collects their data, targets them with harmful and manipulative content, and spreads communist propaganda,” Cotton said.
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The TikTok CEO is expected to sit on the podium at the inauguration alongside 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 familiar with the matter. this question.
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Trump has reversed his stance on the popular app after trying to ban it during his first term due to national security concerns. He joined TikTok during his 2024 presidential campaign, and his team used it to connect with young voters, especially men, by promoting content that was often “machismo” and aimed to go viral, the paper said. He promised to “save TikTok” during the campaign and credited the platform with helping him win more of the youth vote.