'Terrifying': Critics Blast TikTok For 'Sucking Up To Trump' In Notice Of U.S. Ban
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The app, which prevented American users from scrolling through videos late Saturday, highlighted Trump's interest in a "solution" to keep its U.S. operations alive.
Social media users in the U.S. fumed over TikTok’s shoutout to President-elect Donald Trump after the platform, which went dark late Saturday, weighed in on a federal ban that it described as “unfortunately” barring people using the app.
Millions of TikTok users who expected to scroll through videos on the app were instead met with a pop-up message informing them that the platform was “fortunate” for Trump’s interest in finding “a solution to reinstate” its U.S. operations after he’s sworn into office on Monday.
Trump, in a phone interview with “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Saturday, said he will “most likely” provide a “90-day extension” to the platform’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to avoid a TikTok ban by selling its U.S. assets.
TikTok had previously warned that it’d go dark Sunday unless the Biden administration gave more “clarity and assurance” to third-party service providers like Apple and Google that it wouldn’t enforce the law when a ban took effect.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred to TikTok’s threat as a “stunt” and emphasized that “actions to implement this law will fall to the next administration.”
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