Unfortunately for our collective sanity, Trump's promises have the predictive power of /dev/random. He was all aboard the original train to ban TikTok, so he'll just as easily flip-flop back and forth based on whatever his cadre of puppeteers whisper into his ear today. And also the bill already passed and was signed into law in April: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...
Given that Zuckerberg is now trying to get in the Trump swamp, and Meta was behind some of the initial lobbying to ban Tiktok. It'll be some funny back and forth.
Meta spent a record $7.6 million on lobbying the federal government in the first quarter of 2024, which is the same time Congress was advancing legislation that could ban TikTok. Although Meta's disclosure doesn't explicitly mention the TikTok ban, it does mention lobbying on topics like cybersecurity, data security, and platform integrity, which are all relevant to the concerns surrounding TikTok. So...yeah.
Ironically, for anti-ban folks Meta is by default assumed guilty despite evidence unlike TikTok which is given the benefit of doubt despite evidence [1,2,3].
