Following a win on the Australian Open that allowed her to succeed in the quarterfinals, American tennis star Coco Gauff lamented the U.S. authorities’s ban of the social media app TikTok, writing “RIP TikTok USA” on a digital camera lens after profitable 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 over Belinda Bencic. TikTok, a preferred social media video platform the place Gauff had over 750,000 followers, was shut down within the U.S. on Saturday night following extended U.S. authorities efforts towards the China-based app on grounds of nationwide safety.
Whereas TikTok shut down its service to customers based mostly in the US, President-elect Donald Trump stated through an announcement on Reality Social that he plans to situation an government order to permit TikTok’s guardian firm, ByteDance, to search out an accredited U.S. purchaser. The app’s message to U.S. customers states that “We’re lucky that President Trump has indicated that he’ll work with us on an answer to reinstate TikTok as soon as he takes workplace.”
“It is actually unhappy. I have been on the app because it was referred to as Musical.ly,” Gauff stated in a information convention afterwards. “I love TikTok. It is like an escape. I truthfully try this earlier than matches. I guess it would drive me to learn books extra, be extra of a productive human, most likely. Possibly it is a blessing in disguise.”
The Supreme Court docket unanimously upheld laws to drive ByteDance to promote TikTok or be shut down in the US on Friday on issues over the app amassing huge swaths of U.S. person knowledge that might be handed over to the Chinese language authorities by coercion. In an announcement on Sunday afternoon, TikTok introduced it was within the technique of restoring service in the US forward of President Trump’s inauguration on Monday.
