In response to Biden's granting pre-emptive pardons to his allies, Trump responded by expressing that the former leader had set an "unbelievable precedent"

Congress last year in a law signed by President Joe Biden required that TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance divest the company by Jan. 19 or risk getting banned in the U.S.

Analysis: Trump sees halting the bipartisan TikTok ban as an easy way to show he’s delivering results. He’s probably right, writes John Bowden

President-elect Donald Trump, who once called to ban TikTok, has since pledged to keep it available in the U.S.

As a ban looms over the social media app and its 170 million users, TikTok said it will be “forced to go dark” on Sunday unless the Biden administration explicitly declares that it will not enforce the ban.

TikTok said it would “go dark” on Sunday unless President Joe Biden’s administration offered assurance that it would not enforce a ban upheld Friday by the Supreme Court for the app’s U.S. operations to be sold or booted over “national security concerns.

US President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a rally after TikTok was reinstated following the country banning the platform for around 14 hours.