当选总统唐纳德·特朗普一位知情人士告诉美国广播公司,他将于周一在Mar-a-Lago会见抖音首席执行官周寿。
会议在特朗普之后举行在新闻发布会上说周一,他对抖音有一种“热情”,认为这款应用帮助他在上个月的总统选举中赢得了年轻选民的支持。CNN最先报道了这次会议。
特朗普最初试图在他的第一届政府中禁止抖音,但后来改变了方针,发誓要在竞选中“拯救”这款应用。尚不清楚他将如何做到这一点,因为该法案获得了两党的大力支持,并将需要众议院和参议院的批准。
抖音周一向美国最高法院提交了一份紧急申请,寻求临时禁令,以推迟该应用的禁令生效,同时该公司寻求法官的正式审查。
总统乔·拜登签署了保护美国人免受外国对手控制的应用程序法案,这是国会4月份通过的950亿美元大规模对外援助计划的一部分。作为该法案的一部分,拥有超过1.7亿美国用户的抖音被迫从其目前的中国所有者字节跳动手中出售该公司。
拜登和一些国会领导人认为,出于对字节跳动及其与中国政府关系的安全考虑,对抖音的最后通牒是必要的。
议员们警告苹果和谷歌准备在1月19日将抖音从他们的应用商店中移除。他们还写信给抖音的首席执行官,敦促他寻找买家。
“我们敦促抖音立即执行有条件的剥离,”他们写道。
从中国母公司手中出售抖音可以避开禁令,但这将是一项极其复杂和昂贵的交易。中国官员表示,他们将阻止抖音算法的任何销售,该算法推动了该应用的成功。
两位熟悉计划的消息人士告诉ABC新闻,除了与抖音首席执行官会面,特朗普还将于周二在Mar-a-Lago与网飞首席执行官泰德·萨兰多斯会面,预计将于周三与亚马逊创始人杰夫·贝索斯会面。在与贝佐斯会面之前,《华尔街日报》报道称,亚马逊计划向特朗普的就职基金捐赠100万美元。
Trump meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Chew at Mar-a-Lago
President-electDonald Trumpis meeting with the TikTok CEO Shou Chew at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, a source familiar told ABC News.
The meeting comes after Trumpsaid in a news conferenceon Monday that he has a “warm spot” in his heart for TikTok, crediting the app for helping him win over young voters in last month's presidential election. CNN was the first to report on the meeting.
Trump originally tried to ban TikTok in his first administration, but has since reversed course, vowing on the campaign trail to “save” the app. It’s not clear how he would do so, given the legislation passed with strong bipartisan support and would require approval from both the House and Senate.
TikTok filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday seeking a temporary injunction that would delay the ban on the app from taking effect while the company seeks formal review by the justices.
PresidentJoe Bidensigned the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which was part of a massive, $95 billion foreign aid package passed by Congress, in April. As part of the act, TikTok, which has more than 170 million U.S. users, is forced to sell the company from its current Chinese-based owner ByteDance.
Biden and some congressional leaders argued that the ultimatum against TikTok was necessary because of security concerns about ByteDance and its connections to the Chinese government.
Lawmakers have warned Apple and Google to be ready to remove TikTok from their app stores on Jan. 19. They also wrote to TikTok’s CEO, urging him to look for a buyer.
“We urge TikTok to immediately execute a qualified divestiture,” they wrote.
Selling off TikTok from its Chinese parent would avoid the ban, but it would be an extremely complex and expensive transaction. Chinese officials have said they would block any sale of TikTok’s algorithm, which drives the app’s success.
In addition to his meeting with the TikTok CEO, Trump will also meet with Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos on Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago and is expected to meet with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Wednesday, two sources familiar with the plans told ABC News. The meeting with Bezos comes after a Wall Street Journal report that Amazon is planning to donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund.