Trump will ‘most likely’ give TikTok 90-day extension to avoid ban

Washington: President-elect Donald Trump said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a US law that threatens to shut down the popular platform as soon as Sunday, NBC News reported.

“I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate,” NBC quoted Trump as saying in a phone interview to Meet the Press host Kristen Welker. “You know, it’s appropriate. We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation.”

TikTok said on Friday that it would “go dark” in the US on Sunday unless there’s a clear statement from President Joe Biden’s administration — whose term ends Monday — to service providers about what course it should take.

The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that requires TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. to find a buyer for its US operations or face a shutdown on Sunday.