Hours after the Supreme Court unanimously supported a law ban TikTok in the United States from Sunday, the CEO of the platform, Shou Zi Chewposted his response in video form, doing everything possible to congratulate the president-elect Donald Trump.
“On behalf of everyone at TikTok and all of our users across the country, I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to working with us to find a solution to keep TikTok available in the United States,” said Chew in his video.
“We are grateful and happy to have the support of a President who truly understands our platform, who has used TikTok to express his own thoughts and perspectives, connecting with the world and generating over 60 billion views of his content in the process. . » he added.
Our response to the Supreme Court’s decision.
Chew mentioned the app’s more than 170 million daily users in the United States, as well as more than 7 million American businesses on the platform, concluding his video with: “Rest assured; We will do everything in our power to ensure our platform thrives as an online home for unlimited creativity and discovery, as well as a source of inspiration and joy for years to come.
The TikTok CEO met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, last month, according to The Washington PostAnd The New York Times reported that he will sit on the dais at Trump’s inauguration on Monday alongside tech luminaries such as Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, and Meta CEO , Mark Zuckerberg.
