Donald Trump has the US Supreme Court asked TikTok should not be banned for the time being. The Supreme Court will consider the request submitted by TikTok itself on January 10. Parent ByteDance must sell its American interests before January 19, otherwise the app can no longer be used.
In April, Congress approved a law that obliges the Chinese owner of the app, ByteDance, to sell the platform to an American company. This is due to the fear that the app could be used for Chinese espionage. Apart from the fact that no evidence of this has ever been provided, the user data has been managed by Oracle for some time.
During his first term as president in 2020, Trump was still a strong supporter of a ban. The app was even unavailable in American app stores for several days.
Trump now thinks very differently about this because he achieved billions of views via the video platform during his campaign.
In the US, the app says it has about 170 million users.
TikTok has already tried to prevent the ban through the courts, but without success. Joe Biden can, however, postpone the deadline by three months.
Source: www.emerce.nl
