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US President-elect Donald Trump will meet with the CEO of TikTok as the social media giant fights plans to ban it in the US.
Trump was due to meet Shou Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday, BBC US partner CBS News reports, citing sources familiar with the meeting.
A law passed earlier this year means Tiktok will be banned unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells it by January 19.
The company has filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court to delay the ban.
The United States wants TikTok to be sold or banned due to alleged links between ByteDance and the Chinese state, links that both TikTok and ByteDance have always denied.
The bill introducing the law said it was intended to “protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by applications controlled by foreign adversaries.”
Trump opposes the ban, despite supporting it during his first term, in part because it could help Facebook, which he has accused of contributing to his 2020 election loss.
Trump’s second term, however, will not begin until he is inaugurated on January 20, one day after the statutory deadline.
In its Supreme Court filing, filed Monday, TikTok asked for a “modest delay” in enforcing the ban to “create breathing room” for a review by the Court and allow the incoming administration to “evaluate this matter.” .
He described TikTok as “one of the most important platforms for expression” in the United States and said the ban would cause “immediate irreparable harm” to the company and its users.
Earlier this month, the company’s offer to have the revoked ban was rejected by the federal appeals court, which found the law to be “the culmination of extensive bipartisan action by Congress and successive presidents.”
At a press conference on Monday, Trump said his administration would “take a look at TikTok.”
“I have a warm place in my heart for TikTok, because I won the youth category by 34 points,” he said.
“There are those who say TikTok has something to do with it. TikTok had an impact.”
A majority of 18- to 29-year-olds backed Trump’s Democratic opponent Kamala Harris in November, but voting saw a significant shift toward Trump among young voters since the 2020 election.
Triumph only joined TikTok in Junebut he gained millions of followers on the platform throughout the campaign.
