While Trump was reportedly on the phone with Xi, the Chinese leader, SCOTUS upheld a law set to ban TikTok in less than 48 hours.
Unless TikTok severs ties with China-based parent company ByteDance, the ban will take effect on Sunday, the day before President-elect Donald Trump assumes office.
Trump has reportedly positioned himself as the savior for TikTok and his first buddy, Elon Musk. Chinese officials have reportedly held preliminary talks about a potential option to sell TikTok’s operations in the US to the billionaire, should the short-video app be unable to avoid an impending ban. Another option is for Musk to act as a broker in a deal to sell the app.
TikTok plans to shut down app in US Sunday if ban holds, reports say. Here's what to know.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/01/15/tiktok-plans-banned-update/77716034007/#
What to know about RedNote, the Chinese app that American TikTokkers are flooding
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5260742/tiktok-china-rednote-xiaoh…
TikTok hopes for Trump intervention after US supreme court upholds ban
App will become unavailable in US on 19 January, unless Trump directs justice department not to enforce the law
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/17/supreme-court-tiktok…
