{"id":20423,"date":"2025-01-19T20:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T21:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20423"},"modified":"2025-01-19T22:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T22:33:53","slug":"tiktok-butters-up-trump-as-it-navigates-a-ban-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20423","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Butters Up Trump as It Navigates a Ban in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The app has repeatedly name checked the president-elect in pop-up messages and statements, as it navigates a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non-Chinese owner.<\/p>\n

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Many tech leaders and tech companies have paid court to President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks. From Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg to Amazon\u2019s founder Jeff Bezos, they have visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, flattered him on X and donated to his inaugural fund.<\/p>\n

But TikTok has taken those methods to the next level.<\/p>\n

As the Chinese-owned social app fights a federal law that bans it in the United States unless it is sold, it publicly referenced and then thanked Mr. Trump for his support in statements and in videos since Friday. It even built its flattery right into the app so its 170 million American users could see it:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of President Trump\u2019s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!,\u201d a pop-up message on Sunday read.<\/p>\n

TikTok\u2019s chief executive, Shou Chew, filmed his own thank you video to Mr. Trump last week, even referring to the president\u2019s personal TikTok account. Mr. Chew has also visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, and has been invited to sit in a position of honor on the dais at Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration on Monday.<\/p>\n

TikTok \u201cwill go to any lengths to please the authorities\u201d while facing this ban, said Anupam Chander, a professor of law and technology at Georgetown University and an expert on the global regulation of new technologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cTikTok is seeking the president\u2019s favor in these ways because their very existence in this country depends on him,\u201d Mr. Chander said in an interview on Sunday. \u201cHe\u2019s their lifeline and so they are making sure that they stay on his good side.\u201d<\/p>\n

TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump may not be able to save the app in the long-term as he has declared. He vowed early Sunday to issue an executive order to give ByteDance, TikTok\u2019s Chinese owner, more time to make a sale that would satisfy the law, but it\u2019s not clear if he can extend the timeline now that the law has taken effect \u2014 or if he has a sale in mind that would meet the terms of the law. Mr. Trump appears to be committed. Even before his post promising an executive order, he posted to the social media platform Truth Social in all-caps: \u201cSAVE TIKTOK!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The app has repeatedly name checked the president-elect in pop-up messages and statements, as it navigates a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non-Chinese owner.Many tech leaders and tech companies have paid court to President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks. From Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg to Amazon\u2019s founder Jeff Bezos, they have visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, flattered him on X and donated to his inaugural fund.But TikTok has taken those methods to the next level.As the Chinese-owned social app fights a federal law that bans it in the United States unless it is sold, it publicly referenced and then thanked Mr. Trump for his support in statements and in videos since Friday. It even built its flattery right into the app so its 170 million American users could see it:\u201cAs a result of President Trump\u2019s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!,\u201d a pop-up message on Sunday read.TikTok\u2019s chief executive, Shou Chew, filmed his own thank you video to Mr. Trump last week, even referring to the president\u2019s personal TikTok account. Mr. Chew has also visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, and has been invited to sit in a position of honor on the dais at Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration on Monday.TikTok \u201cwill go to any lengths to please the authorities\u201d while facing this ban, said Anupam Chander, a professor of law and technology at Georgetown University and an expert on the global regulation of new technologies.\u201cTikTok is seeking the president\u2019s favor in these ways because their very existence in this country depends on him,\u201d Mr. Chander said in an interview on Sunday. \u201cHe\u2019s their lifeline and so they are making sure that they stay on his good side.\u201dTikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Mr. Trump may not be able to save the app in the long-term as he has declared. He vowed early Sunday to issue an executive order to give ByteDance, TikTok\u2019s Chinese owner, more time to make a sale that would satisfy the law, but it\u2019s not clear if he can extend the timeline now that the law has taken effect \u2014 or if he has a sale in mind that would meet the terms of the law. Mr. Trump appears to be committed. Even before his post promising an executive order, he posted to the social media platform Truth Social in all-caps: \u201cSAVE TIKTOK!\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20425,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20426,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423\/revisions\/20426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}