TikTok CEO meets with Trump as the platform tries to avoid a ban

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TikTok’s prohibition is scheduled to spell into effect conscionable 1 time earlier Donald Trump’s inauguration.

By Emma Roth, a quality writer who covers the streaming wars, user tech, crypto, societal media, and overmuch more. Previously, she was a writer and exertion astatine MUO.

Dec 16, 2024, 10:48 PM UTC

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is acceptable to conscionable with President-Elect Donald Trump connected Monday arsenic the level faces a prohibition successful the US, according to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. The determination makes Chew the latest tech enforcement — pursuing Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — to conscionable with Trump astatine his Mar-a-Lago resort.

TikTok already mislaid successful appeals tribunal portion warring the ban-or-divest law that goes into effect connected January 19th, and today, it asked the Supreme Court to intervene.

Though Trump initially led the ban connected TikTok implicit claims astir nationalist information concerns, helium started to reverse people earlier this year. In March, Trump said he didn’t privation a TikTok prohibition due to the fact that “...without TikTok, you tin marque Facebook bigger and I see Facebook to beryllium an force of the people.” He aboriginal joined TikTok successful June.

When asked astir the TikTok prohibition during a property league connected Monday, Trump said helium would “take a look.” Along with gathering with Trump, tech giants, including Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI, person donated to Trump’s inauguration money arsenic well.