Tiktok Ceo Meets With Trump As The Platform Tries To Avoid A Ban

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is group to meet pinch President-Elect Donald Trump connected Monday arsenic nan level faces a prohibition successful nan US, according to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. The move makes Chew nan latest tech executive — pursuing Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg — to meet pinch Trump astatine his Mar-a-Lago resort.

TikTok already mislaid successful appeals tribunal while fighting nan ban-or-divest rule that goes into effect connected January 19th, and today, it asked nan Supreme Court to intervene.

Though Trump initially led nan prohibition connected TikTok complete claims astir nationalist accusation concerns, he started to reverse group earlier this year. In March, Trump said he didn’t want a TikTok prohibition because “...without TikTok, you tin make Facebook bigger and I spot Facebook to beryllium an unit of nan people.” He later joined TikTok successful June.

When asked astir nan TikTok prohibition during a spot normal connected Monday, Trump said he would “take a look.” Along pinch gathering pinch Trump, tech giants, including Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI, personification donated to Trump’s inauguration money arsenic well.