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Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around ‘for a little while’


With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’d like to keep the app around,

With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’d like to keep the app around, according to Reuters. President Joe Biden signed a bill in April that requires TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the short-form video app by January 19 of next year (one day before Trump takes office) or else see it banned. TechCrunch Space Every Monday, gets you up to speed on the latest advances in aerospace.

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