What TikTok users should know about a potential ban

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The law in question, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, was passed with broad bipartisan support in Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2024.
53% : Elon Musk, owner of X and a close advisor to Trump, has been floated as a possible buyer for TikTok, according to reports.
48% : "President Trump alone possesses the consummate dealmaking expertise, the electoral mandate, and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform while addressing the national security concerns expressed by the Government -- concerns which President Trump himself has acknowledged," D. John Sauer, an attorney for Trump who is also the president-elect's pick for U.S. solicitor general, wrote in the brief filed on Dec. 27.
48% : And there are those that say that TikTok has something to do with that," Trump said.
34% : In December 2024, attorneys for Trump filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to pause the implementation of the law that would effectively ban TikTok if it is not sold.
24% : "While Trump vowed to ban TikTok in 2020, he has since reversed his position.

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