President Donald Trump's flurry of day-one actions included a reprieve for TikTok, the creation of a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an order on social media "censorship," a declaration of an energy emergency, and reversal of a Biden order on artificial intelligence.
A number of social-media posts claim that the Chinese-owned app is blocking content that is critical of the new president.
U.S. TikTok servers went down for roughly 12 hours over the weekend, starting on the night of January 18. American users are now reporting a spike in censorship of political commentary and criticism since the app has been back up and running in the States,
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and TikTok’s CEO Shou ZI Chew both attended the inauguration, alongside former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the first tech boss to hitch his wagon to Trump.
TikTok returned on Sunday for American users after going dark on Saturday night. President-elect Donald Trump says he intends to "save" the platform.
Chew is right that TikTok being banned is due to arbitrary censorship and that this law is an affront to the First Amendment rights of its 170 million users in the United States. But praising Trump’s action is more akin to performance art than traditional lobbying.
In his first hours as president, Trump signed numerous executive orders to implement his administration's promises.
President Donald Trump has ordered that no federal officer, employee or agent may unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen. Monday's order issued just hours after he was
Donald Trump is downplaying the potential threat that TikTok poses to national security -- but numerous aides and allies are squarely at odds with the president.
For now, TikTok lives to fight another day. But as this saga continues to unfold, it’s clear that the battle over its future has only just begun.
Shortly after taking office Monday, the president issued the order to delay the app’s ban for 75 days. The law went into effect on Sunday.