On January 13, 2025, Liv McMahon reported a stunning news: TikTok is facing the threat of being banned in the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells it by January 19. The Supreme Court has just heard TikTok’s final plea for the ban to be overturned. The incoming President Donald Trump, who is set to take office the day after the ban is scheduled to take effect, has asked the Supreme Court to delay it so he can seek a ‘political’ solution. It seems that the new president understands how to play with social media better than his predecessor. Those US officials and lawmakers who accused TikTok of being linked to the Chinese government seem to have forgotten their ‘national security’ concerns, and treated a social media app as a representative of an enemy power.
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