When reached for comment, the Trump transition team did not offer details on how Trump plans to carry out his pledge to ‘save TikTok’, as he said on a Truth Social post in September. — AP
After a tumultuous year filled with anxiety and a legal battle about its future in the US, TikTok may have just been thrown a lifeline by the man who was once its biggest foe: Donald Trump.
President-elect Trump, who tried to ban the social media platform the last time he was in the White House, has repeatedly pledged during his most recent campaign to oppose a ban on the short-form video app, which could happen as soon as mid-January if the company loses a court case that’s currently underway in Washington.