President-elect of the United States Donald Trump said he would " He can do this only after taking office on Monday, January 20.

Trump said this in an interview with American broadcaster NBC News. The president stressed that he has not yet made a final decision regarding TikTok, but is inclined to give Chinese technology giant ByteDance additional time to sell the American segment of TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer.

" You know, this is very helpful. We need to take a close look at this. This is a very serious situation,"

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According to the " But the specified 90 days of deferment are expressly provided for by law.

Trump has said before that he will be the one to decide the fate of TikTok.. This may seem strange since the law was passed during the time of President Joe Biden. But it should be noted that it was proposed during Trump’s first term in office.. Moreover, Biden has repeatedly stated that “actions to implement this law will be taken by the next administration.”.

There are many questions about how the TikTok ban will work in practice, as there is no precedent for the US to block a large social media platform. And how exactly the new government will enforce the court decision remains unclear.

Meanwhile, China has already figured out how to circumvent the TikTok ban in the US.

Chinese officials are considering the possibility of acquiring the American division of TikTok by the director of Tesla, SpaceX and the social network X, billionaire Elon Musk..

Note that the United States is not the first state that has decided to ban TikTok. Previously, a number of other countries had made such a decision.. True, for various reasons, not only political or economic.

In countries where TikTok has been banned, users are using VPNs to bypass the block and continue accessing content..