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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Dec 22, 2024, 07:04 PM Dec 2024

Trump says it could be worth keeping TikTok in US for a little while [View all]

Source: Aol/Reuters

December 22, 2024 at 2:29 PM


(Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he favored allowing TikTok to keep operating in the United States for at least a little while, saying he had received billions of views on the social media platform during his presidential campaign.

Trump's comments before a crowd of conservative supporters in Phoenix, Arizona, were one of the strongest signals yet that he opposes a potential exit of TikTok from the U.S. market. The U.S. Senate passed a law in April requiring TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest the app, citing national security concerns.

TikTok's owners have sought to have the law struck down, and the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case. But if the court does not rule in ByteDance's favor and no divestment occurs, the app could be effectively banned in the United States on Jan. 19, one day before Trump takes office.

It is unclear how Trump would go about undoing the TikTok divestiture order, which passed overwhelmingly in the Senate.

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/trump-says-could-worth-keeping-192923149.html



As a note - the TikTok divestiture was included in the Ukraine/Israel aid package this past April.
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