The Senate Majority leader voted to ban TikTok from U.S. app stores beginning Jan. 19, 2025. This pending ban attempts to pressure Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell the social media platform. The ban was signed into law by President Joe Biden in April.
“TikTok clearly hopes that the next administration will be more sympathetic to its plight than the incumbent administration. In other words, delay is the point,” McConnell wrote in his brief, referring to President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump joined the platform during his campaign and, less than a week later, promised he “will never ban TikTok.” Since then, the president-elect has garnered over 14 million followers and credited the platform for winning the youth vote by 34 points. Trump is still committed to “take a look at
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