Fearing enormous fines, Google and Apple held off from reinstating TikTok to their app stores until the DOJ sent them a second version of President Trump’s “written guidance.”
Restoring TikTok isn’t without risk for Apple and Google, legal experts warn, especially if the executive order faces legal challenges. Vice President JD Vance is charged with brokering a
The move reportedly comes after US attorney general Pam Bondi reassured Apple and Google they would not be fined for hosting TikTok.
The vice president is in a tricky position as he looks for a deal to save the popular short-form video app, which is subject to being banned in the U.S. if it is not sold to a non-Chinese owner.
The app’s availability in the U.S. has been thrown into jeopardy over data privacy and national security concerns.
The popular social media app was removed to comply with a new law that banned it in the United States. President Trump has paused enforcement of the ban.
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Canada-based human smugglers are allegedly exploiting TikTok to advertise illegal entry into the US across the northern border amid Trump's southern crackdown.
President Donald Trump has expounded an extraordinary vision of his authority over the past month, relying on the Supreme Court’s decision last year granting him immunity from criminal prosecution, as a blank check in his broader drive for power.
Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office seeking to provide legal protection to companies that work with TikTok. In practical terms, it instructed the Department of Justice to not hold any companies liable for violating the TikTok ban.
Apple and Google have restored TikTok to their U.S. app stores after President Trump delayed enforcement of a law that requires the popular video app to divest or face a nationwide ban.
For weeks, TikTok was not available in the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store in the USA. Both feared severe penalties. Now comes the turnaround.
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