She added that she hoped TikTok would survive, calling it “a great thing for a lot of small businesses in our country, and a lot of creators make money on it and have the chance to spread stories. Personally, me, a lot of great stories I’ve heard are from TikTok and connecting with people has been (through) TikTok. I hope it will stay, (but) obviously I don’t know all the security issues and things like that.”
President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday in a post on his Truth Social account that he plans to issue an executive order that would give TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, more time to find an approved buyer.
The company’s app was removed from prominent app stores, including the ones operated by Apple and Google, while its website told users that the short-form video platform was no longer available. The blackout began just hours before a U.S. federal law banning TikTok was scheduled to go into effect.
Apple and Google app stores were prohibited from offering TikTok under the law that required ByteDance to sell the platform or face a ban in the U.S.
“I heard about that (the TikTok ban),” No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, a Belarusian who is the two-time defending champion in Melbourne, said after her victory Sunday. “This is not something we can control, and I hope they’re going to figure it out, because I love TikTok.”
