What happened
TikTok will be banned in the United States from Sunday according to a law that was adopted with a broad two -party support last year. The law gave Tiktok’s Chinese parent company, Bythadance, until January 19 to sell the popular app to an American company at a national security site.
Who said what
“Excludes a Supreme Court infringement or any 11-hour movement of the Biden administration,” Tiktok “planning to get dark in the United States” at midnight Saturday, Wall Street Journal said. President Joe Biden does not plan to enforce the ban on his last all day in the officesaid an official in the White House on Thursday. “Considering the time when it comes into force during a weekend holiday one day before the inauguration, it will be up to the next administration to implement” the law.
Donald Trump plans to hold “Tiktok from Goes dark“Incoming National Security Advisor Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FLA) told Fox News on Thursday. The elected president” is considering an executive order to allow Tiktok to operate, ” New York Times Said, although it is “unclear” whether such an order “would survive legal challenges or convince the app stores and cloud calculation companies to take measures that can expose them to huge penalties” according to the 2024 Act.
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What now?
TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to have a “main seat on Dais” at Trump’s inauguration on Monday, next to others Big Tech managers, PBS said.
