Shou Zi Chew thanked the incoming president for efforts to "find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States."
Trump said in an exclusive phone interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that he’ll “probably announce it on Monday” – the day of his inauguration to a second term.
TikTok said Friday night it would "go dark" Sunday. Trump told NBC hours later he would probably issue an order temporarily saving the app from a ban.
TikTok has said that it will “go dark” on Sunday, appealing for greater “clarity and assurance” so that US tech hosts of the service would not be in legal jeopardy
While President Joe Biden says he does not intend to enforce it, ByteDance says TikTok "will be forced to go dark" on Sunday after a Supreme Court ruling unanimously upheld the ban.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said on Friday he wants to thank U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for his commitment to work with the company and find a solution that keeps the app available in the United States.
After TikTok said it would be "forced to go dark" on Sunday unless the White House took action, President-elect Trump told ABC News he'd be likely to grant the social media company an extension.
The fate of Tiktok is in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump after the Supreme Court upheld the ban Friday..
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he is "most likely" to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a U.S. ban. This decision comes as TikTok's China-based parent company,
TikTok could go dark in the United States on Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld a ban on the Chinese-owned social media platform — but it could be back as early as Monday.
Potential buyers for TikTok US include MrBeast, Kevin O'Leary, Frank McCourt's Project Liberty and Perplexity AI, who bid a merger instead of a sale,