On Saturday President-elect Donald Trump told NBC in a phone interview that after he takes office he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban. The extension is allowed under the bipartisan law passed last year. But on Friday the Supreme Court voted to uphold the law that would ban TikTok. While the Biden Administration has said they would not enforce the law before leaving office, the deadline of the ban is still set to take place Sunday Jan. 19. To lift the ban, the law requires TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to a non-Chinese-buyer. As of now, TikTok says it plans to “go dark” on Sunday, unless it is given immediate clarity and assurance of non-enforcement of the app ban. While Trump may grant the app an extension on his first day in office, that still leaves one day of potential darkness for the social media app. As of now, the fate of the app and its more than 170 million U.S. users still hang in the abyss.
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