US President-elect Donald Trump meets with TikTok’s CEO, as the social media giant fights plans to ban it in the US.
Trump was scheduled to meet Chiu at his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Monday, CBS News, the BBC’s partner in the US, reported, citing sources familiar with the meeting.
The law passed earlier this year means that Tiktok will be banned unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, before January 19.
The company filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court to postpone the ban.
The US wants to sell or ban TikTok because of alleged links between ByteDance and the Chinese state, links that both TikTok and ByteDance have always denied.
The bill introducing the law said it aims to “protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign applications controlled by an adversary.”
Trump opposes the ban – despite supporting it during his first term – partly on the grounds that it could help Facebook, which he accused of helping to cause him to lose the 2020 election.
However, Trump’s second term will not begin until he is inaugurated on January 20, the day after the deadline set by law.
In its filing with the Supreme Court on Monday, TikTok requested a “modest delay” in implementing the ban in order to “allow breathing room” for court review and allow the incoming administration to “evaluate this matter.” .
She called TikTok “one of the most important speech platforms” in the United States and said a ban would do “immediate and irreparable harm” to the company and its users.
Earlier this month, the company attempted to have… The ban was canceled by a federal appeals court, which found that the law was “the culmination of broad, bipartisan work by Congress and successive presidents.”
At a press conference on Monday, Trump said his administration would “take a look at TikTok.”
He said: “I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok, because I won Al-Shabab by 34 points.”
“There are those who say TikTok had something to do with it. TikTok had an influence.”
A majority of young people between the ages of 18 and 29 supported Trump’s Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, in November, but the vote has witnessed a significant shift towards Trump among young voters since the 2020 elections.
Trump He only joined TikTok in JuneBut she gained millions of followers on the platform over the course of the campaign.
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