The Perplexity proposal comes as several investors are expressing interest in TikTok. President Donald Trump said late Saturday that he expects a deal will be made in as soon as 30 days.
A bill prohibiting some Hoosier minors from using social media without their parents’ permission got bipartisan support in the Indiana Senate on Thursday and moved to the House for further consideration.
Business leaders, lawmakers, legal scholars, and influencers who make money on TikTok are watching to see how Trump tries to resolve a thicket of regulatory, legal, financial and geopolitical issues with his signature.
TikTok restored service to users in the United States on Sunday just hours after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban.
He said his order would “extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect” and “confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.
The court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
President-elect Donald Trump, who once called to ban the app, has since pledged to keep it available in the U.S., though his transition team has not said how they intend to accomplish that.
Senate Bill 11 would require a social media operator such as Facebook or TikTok to restrict a minor from accessing the site if they did not receive “verifiable parental consent”
While the Supreme Court is still expected to issue a ruling or order on the case this week, its continued silence has amped up the tension in years-long drama over the fate of TikTok.
The TikTok alternative is the top downloaded app in the United States.
The Supreme Court on Friday will take up TikTok’s high-stakes challenge to a federal law that would effectively shut down the wildly popular video-sharing platform this month unless the company divests from Chinese ownership.
The measure would require a social media operator like Facebook or TikTok to restrict a minor from accessing the site if they did not receive “verifiable parental consent” from the minor’s parent.
If the government prevails as it did in a lower court, TikTok says it would shut down its U.S. platform by Jan. 19, leaving creators scrambling to redefine their futures.
A looming TikTok ban could affect the millions of small businesses that use the short-video social media app to help them grow their business.
The justices will hear arguments Jan. 10 about whether the law impermissibly restricts speech in violation of the First Amendment.
A federal appeals court on Friday left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States.
As in past years, YouTube was the single most popular platform teenagers used. There was a slight downward trend in several other popular apps teens used.
The company said the Supreme Court should have an opportunity to wade into the matter given it is an “exceptionally important case” that could force a shutdown of “one of the Nation’s most popular speech platforms.”
The U.S. has said it’s concerned about TikTok collecting vast swaths of user data that could fall into the hands of the Chinese government through coercion.
A virtually identical share of Republicans and Democrats regularly get their news from digital influencers who are more likely to be found on the social media platform X, according to a report by the Pew Research Center.
