US President-elect Donald Trump meets with TikTok CEO, as the social media giant fights its proposed ban in the US.
Trump was due to meet Shou Chew on Monday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, reports CBS News, the BBC's US partner, citing sources close to the meeting.
A law passed earlier this year means Tiktok will be banned unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, before January 19.
The company filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court for a postponement of the ban.
The United States wants TikTok sold or banned due to alleged ties between ByteDance and the Chinese state, ties that TikTok and ByteDance have consistently 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 – although he supported one during his first term – partly on the grounds that it could help Facebook, which he accused of contributing to his 2020 election defeat .
However, Trump's second term will not begin until his inauguration on January 20, the day after the deadline set by law.
In its Supreme Court filing, submitted Monday, TikTok requested a “modest delay” in enforcing the ban in order to “create wiggle room” for review by the Court and allow the new administration to ” to evaluate this question. .
He described TikTok as “one of the most important voice platforms” 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 request to overturn the ban was rejected by the federal appeals court, which found the law was “the culmination of broad bipartisan action by Congress and successive presidents.
During a press conference Monday, Trump said his administration would “look at TikTok.”
“I have a warm place in my heart for TikTok, because I won the youth by 34 points,” he said.
“There are those who say TikTok had something to do with it. TikTok had an impact.”
A majority of 18- to 29-year-olds supported Trump's Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, in November, but the vote revealed a significant swing in Trump's favor among younger voters since the 2020 election.
Trump only joined TikTok in June, but gained millions of followers on the platform during the campaign.
