TikTok pulled into the 2024 election when Trump and Biden take opposite sides

Washington DC – In a major reversal, former President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was against a ban on Tiktok When the fate of the popular video sharing app was withdrawn into the American election campaign.

Years of on-and-off attempt to ban the Chinese owned app has resurrected in the United States with Introduction of a bill in congress It could see the app forced to cut ties with its Chinese owner, change.

The House of Representatives could vote this week on the bill with furious lobbying on both sides which made it difficult to predict the result and position in Donald Trump can prove the key to Republicans.

Trump’s turn came as a surprise because he was advocate for Stripping from Bythadance when he was president before being stopped by a US court.

He feared, as many still do, that the site was a national security threat, with tens of millions of young people entertained by TikTok algorithms that are potentially the subject of shades of Chinese Communist Party – a fee company denies strenuous.

President Joe Biden have given its support to the bill, while at the same time Turns to Tultok To address younger voters in videos as part of his outreach to win a second term.

“We don’t see this as banning these Appar- It’s not what this is,” White House’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters last week. “But by ensuring that their ownership is not in the hands of those who can hurt us, it is about our national security, obviously, and this is what we focus on,” she added.

The White House, which led the way for many Western governments, banned last year the use of Tiktok at Government -published smartphones.

But the White House had stopped pursuing one AllbananWith concern in Washington that the move would annoy the influencers and the app’s 170 million American users, mainly young people who will be the key to Bid’s re -election.

Trump said he opposed a ban on TikTok mainly because it would benefit Facebook Owner Meta and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, who he believes support Democrats.

Meta was surprised by Tiktok’s enormous success and his Instagram The platform has since rolled out its rolls Copycat to try to compete (Youtube did about the same with its shorts feature).

“Honestly, there are many people at Tiktok who love it. There are many young children on Tiktok who will be crazy without it,” Trump told CNBC In an interview.

“There is very good, and there is very bad with TikTok, but (what) I do not like is that without tictoc you will make Facebook bigger, and I think Facebook is an enemy for the people together with a lot of media,” Trump.

Trump’s new attitude towards Tiktok, which is likely to sink the bill, has raised the eyebrows with observers. The former US leader denied accusations that he changed his melody because a great investor in Bythadance, hedge leader Jeff Yass, donates to his campaign.

According to PoliticianHis former senior helper Kellyanne Conway lobbying against the bill in Congress and works for a political group financed by Yass.

The app raised the alarm last week when a push message entitled “Stop a Tiktok shutdown“asked users to contact their political representatives to fight the bill and led to a stream of users’ phone calls to Washington.

“Here you have an example of a resistance -controlled application that lies for the American people and interferes with the legislative process in Congress,” the sponsors’ sponsors complained in a statement.