Trump asks the Supreme Court to suspend law that bans TikTok

The Republican expressed concerns, also echoed by his political rivals, that the Chinese government could access the data of American TikTok users or manipulate what is displayed on the social network.

American officials also expressed alarm at the platform’s popularity among young people, alleging that its parent company was working for Beijing and that the app would be used to spread propaganda.

Both ByteDance and the Chinese government have denied these allegations.

Trump had demanded that an American company buy TikTok and that the government participate in the sale price. His successor, Democrat Joe Biden, went further, signing a law to ban the app for the same reasons.

However, Trump appears to have changed his mind. “Now that I think about it, I’m in favor of TikTok, because we need competition,” he recently told Bloomberg.

In the document presented this Friday, Trump’s lawyer made it clear that the president-elect was not taking a position on the legal merits of the current case.