TikTok CEO Xu Ziqiu testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing titled “TikTok: How Congress can protect America's data privacy and protect children from online harms,” as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, in Capitol Hill. Washington, March 23, 2023.
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to attend President Trump's inauguration and will be seated on the adjacent stage Other technology CEOs Including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, according to NBC News sources.
He is also expected to attend Google CEO Sundar Pichai, a Trump transition official, told NBC News.
NBC News reached out to representatives for TikTok and Google for comment, with TikTok declining and Google not immediately responding to the request.
The New York Times was first to report Chiu's attendance, citing two people familiar with the plans.
News of the new guest additions comes days before the TikTok additions Imminent ban In the United States, which can see the application Go into the dark On stores like Google Play and the Apple App Store if the Chinese-owned company does not sell its American subsidiary to an American company.
So far, ByteDance, TikTok's owner, has refused to sell, and supreme court He has not issued a final ruling since hearing arguments last Friday on the law aimed at banning TikTok.
President-elect Donald Trump filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court ahead of last Friday's argument, asking the court to block the ban in favor of the president-elect finding a political solution, though it's unclear how specifically it would be implemented.
Trump has changed his stance on TikTok before, eventually launching the app as an effective campaign tool that helped propel him to the White House in November.
President Joe Biden's administration is also considering ways to do so Keep TikTok available In the United States if the scheduled ban goes into effect Sunday, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
