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Bite dance has officially asked the Supreme Court of the United States to block the U.S. law that could ban TikTok on January 19th.

But perhaps more importantly than that, according to a source, TikTok CEO Shoo-Z-Chu met with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

This is the more relevant news because some of the thinking is if Trump doesn't want TikTok banned, he merely

has to not enforce the law, even if the Supreme Court intervenes or not, quoting NBC News.

Trump expressed having a, quote, warm spot for TikTok at a news conference earlier in the day,

saying, quote, we'll take a look at the app and a possible ban.

At his news conference Monday,

Trump did not mention the meeting with Chu, but said he thought his electoral victory was in part due to his use of TikTok. I won youth by 34 points, and there are those that say that TikTok had

something to do with that, he said. Trump lost voters ages 18 to 29, according to a national exit poll.

Trump tried to ban TikTok in 2020 during his first term in the White House, but he was blocked

by the courts. He changed his position this year, stunning some of his supporters but pleasing

others, including Republican megadoner Jeff Yass, a major investor in TikTok.

Supporters of the ban include both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and they argue that

because of TikTok's Chinese ownership, it poses a threat to user privacy and to the information

environment through the possible manipulation of content, end quote.

As for the Supreme Court implications, quoting the New York Times, saying that the law

violates both its

First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million American users, TikTok, which is controlled

by a Chinese parent company, urged the justices to maintain the status quo while they decide

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