TikTok Is Apparently Back Online. Here’s What Happened—And What Trump Had to Do With It
His tune changed, to put it mildly. After briefly meeting with Jeff Yass, a billionaire American investor in the app (and major Republican donor), in March 2024, and himself joining TikTok in June 2024, the president-elect urged SCOTUS to pause the looming ban in an amicus brief filed on December 27. It read, in part: