TikTok Restores Service in the US Following Donald Trump’s Intervention.

TikTok has restored its services to its 170 million users in the United States following President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that, upon taking office today, January 20, he would issue an executive order to provide the app with a reprieve.

Following the implementation of a law prohibiting the Chinese-owned app on national security grounds, it ceased to function for American users on Saturday night, January 18.

Trump pledged on Sunday to postpone the law’s implementation in order to give more time for a compromise to be reached.

Trump has previously supported a ban on the platform. “Restoring service” was the next statement TikTok made.The app soon resumed functioning, and its millions of users received a popup message thanking Trump by name.

The business said in a statement that it will collaborate with Trump “on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States” and thanked the new president for “providing the necessary clarity and assurance”.

Shou Chew, the CEO of TikTok, is anticipated to be present at Trump’s inauguration today.

Trump posted on his own social media network, Truth Social, on Sunday:

“I’m requesting that businesses stop allowing TikTok to remain dark  in order to reach an agreement to safeguard our national security, I will issue an executive order on Monday to prolong the time before the law’s prohibitions go into effect.

In the past, Bytedance, the parent company of TikTok, disregarded a regulation that required it to sell its US business in order to avoid being banned.

The Supreme Court affirmed the statute on Friday, and it became operative on Sunday.

What legal authority Trump will have to postpone the implementation of an existing statute is unknown.

However, it was anticipated that if he issued an executive order, his government would not execute the restriction.