The shutdown didn’t even last a day. TikTok ended up being reinstated on Sunday in the United States, just a few hours after its suspension. A conclusion in the form of a political victory for Donald Trump.
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On the eve of his inauguration, Donald Trump, in addition to announcing his intention to issue a decree immediately suspending the law banning TikTok in the United States, also proposed that the Chinese social network be 50% controlled by American shareholders.
This Sunday, an American law adopted last year in Congress came into force. It made the short video platform inaccessible in the United States. The country has around 170 million users, or one in two Americans.
Voted by a large majority, this text provided for the obligation for the Chinese parent company Byte Dance to sell TikTok under penalty of ban. The idea of Joe Biden’s administration was then to regain control over a platform that it judges accused of practicing abusive data collection. In its decision, the Supreme Court highlighted “serious national security concerns”. Byte Dance has until now refused to sell this platform launched barely ten years ago and which has become essential for a large majority of young Internet users.
-But Donald Trump arrived like a savior to lift this ban, barely twenty-four hours after it was made official. “I ask companies not to leave TikTok in the dark! “, urged the real estate developer on his Truth Social network.
A valuation of “several trillions”
Donald Trump also does not intend to abandon the sensitive issue of control of the TikTok subsidiary in the United States by Chinese interests. “I would like to see a joint company 50% controlled by Americans,” the president-elect wrote.
“Without an American agreement, there is no TikTok. With our validation, it is worth several hundred billions, if not thousands of billions,” he concluded.
“We will work with President Trump on a long-term solution to keep TikTok in the United States,” the company explained.
