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.
President Joe Biden appears to be backpedaling on the TikTok ban he signed last year. His administration is now saying it won’t enforce the law that will boot the popular platform from app stores, which is scheduled to begin on Sunday, the day before he leaves office.
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 law Friday.
The appearance on the show came a couple of days after Trump signed a flurry of executive orders, from US’ withdrawal from WHO to revoking birthright citizenship among others.
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.
The White House has looked into options to keep TikTok accessible to its 170 million American users if a ban that is set to go into effect Sunday continues as planned.
TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans.
Biden won't enforce the TikTok ban set for Sunday, January 19, his last day in office. It will be up to the Trump administration to enforce the law.
President-elect Donald Trump, who once called to ban TikTok, has since pledged to keep it available in the U.S.
During his first interview as the US President during his second term, Trump defended TikTok and said phones, computers made in China were a far bigger threat
Donald Trump blasted California Governor Gavin Newsom over raging Los Angeles wildfires and touched upon concerns regarding Chinese app TikTok.