TIKTOK SURVIVES TIMELY : PRECIS

 

One tech company that may be toasting Mr. Trump's victory is ByteDance, the Chinese conglomerate that owns TikTok.

Under the '' TikTok ban '' bill that was passed by the Congress and signed into law this year, ByteDance was supposed to sell off TikTok's U.S. operations by January, or face a nationwide ban.

That probably won't happen now, because Mr. Trump who spent much of his first term in office trying to ban TikTok, changed his mind this year, reportedly after an intense lobbying effort by a major ByteDance investor.

Since then, he has pledged to save TikTok in the United States.

The World Students Society thanks Kevin Roose.