{"id":15639,"date":"2024-12-17T01:22:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=15639"},"modified":"2024-12-17T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T01:22:21","slug":"tiktoks-ceo-meets-donald-trump-as-it-seeks-to-avert-us-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=15639","title":{"rendered":"TikTok\u2019s CEO meets Donald Trump as it seeks to avert US ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White Home Watch e-newsletter without spending a dime<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your information to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=d027f61b-4215-4be9-b0de-aafdd3d07a71&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>TikTok chief government Shou Zi Chew met Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, in keeping with two folks aware of the matter, as the favored video app pins its hopes on the president-elect saving it from a looming US ban.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/stream\/b8a2f6ac-53a2-44e0-966f-587002e8e26f\" data-trackable=\"link\">ByteDance<\/a>-owned app is predicted to be banned for the corporate\u2019s 170mn US customers if it doesn&#8217;t divest from its Chinese language mother or father underneath a regulation that comes into power on January 19, the day earlier than Trump\u2019s inauguration as president.<\/p>\n<p>The personal assembly between the pair comes as TikTok\u2019s makes an attempt to battle the ban in court docket have to date fallen brief. A US appeals court docket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ea5668c8-6748-4165-aec6-d799ab139bd2\" data-trackable=\"link\">rejected a challenge to the law<\/a> and subsequent request to halt it whereas the corporate escalates its problem to the Supreme Courtroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/donald-trump\" data-trackable=\"link\">Trump<\/a> has beforehand mentioned that he&#8217;ll \u201csave\u201d the platform, in an try to protect \u201ccompetitors\u201d with Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta, which he has criticised for allegedly censoring rightwing voices.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump reiterated that sentiment, saying he had a \u201clittle little bit of a heat spot\u201d for TikTok, citing his overperformance with younger voters \u2014 who make up the video app\u2019s core consumer base \u2014 within the presidential election earlier this yr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at it,\u201d Trump mentioned when requested how he deliberate to cease subsequent month\u2019s ban on the app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TikTok nodded to Trump\u2019s place in a movement on Monday asking that the Supreme Courtroom quickly block the regulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s a cheap risk that the brand new administration will pause enforcement of the act or in any other case search to mitigate its most extreme potential penalties,\u201d TikTok mentioned within the court docket submitting. \u201cIt could not be within the curiosity of anybody \u2014 not the events, the general public, or the courts \u2014 for the act\u2019s ban on TikTok to take impact just for the brand new administration to halt its enforcement hours, days, and even weeks later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The divest-or-ban regulation was championed by Joe Biden\u2019s administration on nationwide safety grounds, with the Division of Justice arguing the app could possibly be wielded by Beijing for propaganda and espionage functions given its Chinese language mother or father. It handed with bipartisan help in Congress. <\/p>\n<p>TikTok has deemed the regulation unconstitutional and argued {that a} spin-off could be technically \u201cunfeasible\u201d within the regulation\u2019s timeframe. Beijing has additionally mentioned it opposes a sale.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has not made clear the mechanisms he would use to keep away from a TikTok ban. Some consultants notice the regulation permits TikTok to proceed working if the president determines that the app is not underneath Chinese language management, speculating that Trump may merely declare that is the case.<\/p>\n<p>US firms and their chiefs have been lining as much as meet or court docket the president-elect, with Meta chief government Zuckerberg donating $1mn for Trump\u2019s inauguration. Amazon, and OpenAI chief government Sam Altman, have each additionally donated to the occasion.<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title\">Advisable<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image js-teaser\" data-id=\"e90f4a83-bc31-4a5c-b9ab-28d722924143\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e90f4a83-bc31-4a5c-b9ab-28d722924143\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2493\/1402\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"o-teaser__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2F__origami%2Fservice%2Fimage%2Fv2%2Fimages%2Fraw%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%252Fproduction%252Fc87edebd-1115-4167-a7b4-0a7fd4f20894.jpg%3Fsource%3Dnext-article%26fit%3Dscale-down%26quality%3Dhighest%26width%3D700%26dpr%3D1?source=next&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;dpr=2&amp;width=240\" alt=\"Zhang Yiming, ByteDance founder\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Liberal Hollywood has been much less keen to this point. However Ted Sarandos, Netflix\u2019s co-chief government, will meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As head of Netflix\u2019s content material companies, Sarandos is the streaming large\u2019s most seen face in Hollywood.\u00a0He and his spouse, Nicole Avant, are additionally outstanding Democratic celebration donors, having raised cash in Hollywood for Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who confronted Trump within the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Avant, who served as ambassador to the Bahamas underneath Obama, has had robust phrases for her fellow Democrats following Harris\u2019s loss to Trump. \u201cThe Democratic celebration wants a actuality test,\u201d she advised the Hollywood Reporter this month. \u201cIndividuals need to regroup.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d027f61b-4215-4be9-b0de-aafdd3d07a71\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White Home Watch e-newsletter without spending a dime Your information to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world TikTok chief government Shou Zi Chew met Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, in keeping with two folks aware of the matter, as the favored video app pins its hopes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1825,751,1025,56,173,1358,2579,57],"class_list":["post-15639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-avert","tag-ban","tag-ceo","tag-donald","tag-meets","tag-seeks","tag-tiktoks","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}