President Biden will not enforce a ban on TikTok that is set to take effect Sunday, a U.S. official said, leaving its fate to Donald Trump.
TikTok has restored service in the U.S. less than 24 hours after its nationwide shutdown. On Sunday, Jan. 19, TikTok announced on X, via an official statement shared to its policy account, that it is "in the process of restoring service" to Americans after going dark the night prior .
Which all means that it's probably not going away just yet. Here's what to know. Last year, Biden signed legislation requiring ByteDance to sell its TikTok assets on national security grounds — the Justice Department had concerns that TikTok could share ...
U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.
The Biden administration will leave it to Trump to enforce the TikTok ban.Congress ruled last year that Chinese firm ByteDance should sell TikTok or see it banned.Trump takes office on January 20, the day after the deadline for ByteDance to sell.
That was fast. TikTok is 'in the process of restoring service' after Trump said app stores and other providers won't be penalized for hosting the app. It's still not available in the app stores, though.
At almost the last minute, President Biden issued surprising preemptive pardons for some of Donald Trump’s enemies. On Monday morning, Biden issued pardons to Anthony Fauci, the infectious diseases expert who took on the Covid-19 pandemic,
During his first term as president, Donald Trump led the effort to ban TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing site he said posed threats to U.S. national security.
Former President Joe Biden delivered his farewell speech Monday after the inauguration of 47th President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C.
The ban was included in a $95 billion foreign aid legislation to Ukraine and Israel with President Joe Biden later signing the legislation. Several months later, TikTok’s legal challenge to the ...
TikTok users are claiming censorship and a ... meaning that if a user followed @potus when it belonged to Former President Joe Biden, they would still be following @potus when ownership shifted ...
President Joe Biden's administration said it will be up to President-elect Donald Trump to implement the ban on TikTok, which is set to take effect in two days after the Supreme Court upheld the ...