US President-elect Donald Trump is meeting the CEO of TikTok as the social media giant fights plans to have it banned in the US.
Trump was due to meet Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday, the BBC's US partner CBS News reports, citing sources familiar with the meeting.
A law passed earlier this year means TikTok will be banned unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, before 19 January.
The company has made an emergency application to the US Supreme Court to have the ban delayed.
The US wants TikTok sold or banned 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 was intended to "protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary controlled applications".
Trump opposes the ban - despite supporting one during his first term - partly on the grounds that it could help Facebook, which he has accused of aiding his 2020 election loss.
Trump's second term, however, won't begin until he is inaugurated on 20 January, the day after the deadline set out in the law.
In its filing to the Supreme Court, submitted on Monday, TikTok asked for a "modest delay" to the enforcement of the ban to "create breathing room" for a review by the Court and to allow the incoming administration to "evaluate this matter".
It described TikTok as "one of the most significant speech platforms" in the US and said the ban would do "immediate irreparable harm" to the company and its users.
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The threat to ban tiktok arose because young people were being radicalized by the genocide in Gaza. But tiktok changed its algorithm on that, young people voted for Trump, and Israel is getting everything it wants — so there’s no need to ban tiktok anymore
Plus the ADL as of a year ago was put in charge of monitoring, algorithm dampening and censoring TikTok. It’s been sufficiently neutered, and now they just want to cash in on forcing a sale to a Zionist. Basically get ahold of a free windfall. Elon probably wants it.
People were supporting a tiktok ban as far back as 2020, it wasn’t because of gaza
No. Trump's beef with TikTok goes back to when those K-Pop fans on there bought out one of his rallies in 2020 (and yes, he is just that petty.) Chew is probably just going there to remind Trump of all the cash Chinese investors put into Truth Social.
Insane that the Democrats left this on the table
It was signed into law. He can’t just reverse a law. These media reports never address this important part.
Only insane if you believe the democrats goal is to beat republicans and govern instead of them. After this last election, I do not believe this is their actual goal. Both parties trade position, and both parties advance the cause of the elites.
TikTok has more snarky United Health CEO shooting / Luigi fanboy content than any other place on the web, though. In contrast X seems to be throttling such content, not completely, but the comparison is pretty striking.
You say "snarky United Health CEO shooting / Luigi fanboy" like it's a bad thing.
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