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Trump’s Order Delaying TikTok Ban May Not Shield Tech Partners From a Staggering $850 Billion in Penalties for Violating Law, Experts Say
President Trump's executive order pausing the TikTok ban for 75 days might not protect the app's technology partners from $850 billion in fines.
President Donald Trump, in his first day back in the White House, signed a flurry of executive orders — including one instructing the U.S. attorney general to abstain for a 75-day period from enforcing a federal law that criminalizes the hosting and distribution of TikTok. Alan Rozenshtein, a constitutional scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School, told NPR that Trump’s executive order cannot overturn an act of Congress and that the TikTok ban is currently in legal effect. According to the 2024 Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, in order for the Jan. 19 date to be deferred, the U.S. president must have certified that ByteDance has “binding legal agreements” to divest its TikTok stake.
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