Trump Meeting With TikTok CEO Amid Company’s Supreme Court Fight [Video]

What’s New

President-elect Donald Trump met with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Monday as the company asks the U.S. Supreme Court to block a law that would essentially ban the social media app if it is not sold by January, a source familiar with Trump’s plans confirmed to Newsweek.

Why It Matters

TikTok, a popular social media platform used by millions of Americans, faces a ban if its parent company ByteDance does not sell it by January 19, 2025.

Lawmakers voted to ban the platform earlier this year, citing concerns tied to whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would use TikTok to undermine U.S. national security. Calls for the ban gained momentum in the spring, during widespread college campus protests against support for Israel amid its offensive in Gaza, which followed the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.

The company, however, has raised First Amendment arguments about why the app shouldn’t be …