TikTok CEO Meets With Trump As US Ban Looms

December 17, 2024 Social Media, Trump Corruption

Scripps News reports:

President-elect Donald Trump is signaling he might reevaluate a pending ban on TikTok that is set to take effect Jan. 19, one day before his inauguration. The ban would go into effect unless TikTok’s parent company ByteDance sells to a non-Chinese buyer. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.

Trump’s potential support for TikTok would be an about-face to his stance on the company in 2020. In the final months of his first term, Trump issued an executive order that would have forced TikTok to sell or close, citing privacy concerns.

Trump said in his 2020 order that TikTok “automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users — threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information.”

Read the full article. Trump famously reversed on banning TikTok once he learned that GOP megadonor Jeff Yass owns a $15 billion stake in the platform. Days after that revelation, Trump launched his own TikTok account.



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