TikTok’s future in the United States is in serious jeopardy, and Donald Trump may be the only person who can save it.
The president-elect told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Monday that he would “take a look” at the situation surrounding the platform’s future, before meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew a few hours later. It’s unclear what Trump could or would do to stop the law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it. The law is currently slated to go into effect Jan. 19, one day before Trump takes office.
President Joe Biden signed the legislation in April, citing national security concerns related to China’s control over the data of the estimated 170 million Americans who use the platform. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month upheld the law in the face of challenges from TikTok and a group of…
