US President-elect Donald Trump has requested the Supreme Court to temporarily halt the implementation of a law that would prohibit TikTok in the US, urging for more time to explore political solutions regarding the app's ownership.
WASHINGTON — US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to suspend a law that would ban TikTok the day before his inauguration on Jan. 20 if it is not sold by its Chinese owner ByteDance. 'In light of the novelty and difficulty of this case, the court should consider staying the statutory deadline to grant more breathing space to address these issues,' Trump's legal team wrote, to give him 'the opportunity to pursue a political resolution.
' Trump has strongly opposed TikTok during his 2017-21 first term, and tried in vain to ban the video app on national security grounds.The Republican expressed concerns — echoed by political rivals — that the Chinese government might tap into US TikTok users' data or manipulate what they see on the platform.US officials had also voiced alarm over the popularity of the video-sharing app with young people, alleging that its parent company is subservient to Beijing and that the app is used to spread propaganda, claims denied by the company and the Chinese government.Trump called for a US company to buy TikTok, with the government sharing in the sale price, and his successor Joe Biden went one stage further — signing a law to ban the app for the same reasons. Reversing course Trump has now, however, reversed course.At a press conference last week, Trump said he has 'a warm spot' for TikTok and that his administration would take a look at the app and the potential ban.Earlier this month, the president-elect met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Recently, Trump told Bloomberg he had changed his mind about the app: 'Now (that) I'm thinking about it, I'm for TikTok, because you need competition.''If you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram — and that's, you know, that's Zuckerberg.' Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg and part of his Meta tech empire, was among the social media networks that banned Trump after attacks by his supporters on the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
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