The Epoch Times By Jacob Burg
President-elect Donald Trump said on Jan. 19 that he is asking tech companies to keep social media platform TikTok online and would sign an executive order postponing the federal ban of the social media website in the United States.
Trump’s announcement was made as millions of U.S. users found they could no longer access the TikTok app or platform.
After the president-elect’s post, TikTok announced it had restored access in the United States. The platform is available again to U.S.-based users.
The platform previously became unavailable in the United States on the night of Jan. 18, before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app took effect. The law requires TikTok parent company ByteDance to sell its U.S. operation to an approved buyer by Jan. 19 or face a ban.
“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the United States,” a message on the app stated on Jan. 18…
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