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Joe Biden Is Expected to Leave TikTok’s Fate in Trump’s Hands

A U.S. official tells the Associated Press that President Joe Biden won’t enforce the ban on Sunday.

President Joe Biden is reportedly not planning to enforce TikTok’s ban on Jan. 19, and is opting to leave the fate of the app in President-elect Donald Trump’s hands. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a U.S. official told the Associated Press that the Biden administration will be leaving the implementation of a law pertaining to TikTok’s China-based ownership and its subsequent ban to Trump. Last year, Biden signed a law into Congress that required TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest the app by Jan. 19, alleging that it posed a national security threat. While the ban is slated to ensue a day before Trump’s inauguration, the president-elect’s incoming national security adviser, Mike Walz, told Fox News that Trump’s ready to intervene to keep the app afloat. A Biden administration official also told NBC News Wednesday that “Americans shouldn’t expect to see TikTok suddenly banned on Sunday.” In light of TikTok’s ambiguous fate, a slew of users have flocked to Chinese social networking app Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, instead.