{"id":169170,"date":"2021-06-09T14:20:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/biden-is-throwing-out-trump-era-bans-on-tiktok-and-wechat-after-the-former-administration-fought-hard-to-prohibit-the-apps-over-national-security-concerns"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:20:26","slug":"biden-is-throwing-out-trump-era-bans-on-tiktok-and-wechat-after-the-former-administration-fought-hard-to-prohibit-the-apps-over-national-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/biden-is-throwing-out-trump-era-bans-on-tiktok-and-wechat-after-the-former-administration-fought-hard-to-prohibit-the-apps-over-national-security-concerns","title":{"rendered":"Biden is throwing out Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat after the former administration fought hard to prohibit the apps over national-security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok users in the US have been reacting to the news of a potential ban of the popular app for months. Photo Illustration by Andrea Ronchini\/NurPhoto via Getty Images President Biden signed an executive order rescinding a ban on TikTok and WeChat. Trump signed executive actions last year targeting the apps, whose parent companies are in China. Biden directed the commerce secretary to investigate apps with ties to foreign adversaries. See more stories on Insider&#8217;s business page . President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order revoking former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempts to ban TikTok and WeChat in the US. According to a press release shared with Insider, Biden&#8217;s executive order calls for Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to investigate apps with connections to foreign adversaries. The Associated Press and The New York Times also confirmed the news. Biden was expected to abandon Trump&#8217;s plans to ban TikTok when he took office, and Wednesday&#8217;s executive order confirms as much. &#8220;The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump had aggressively sought to ban TikTok in the US during his presidency, but Biden has abandoned those efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,19,56,42,41,166],"class_list":["post-169170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-behind-viral-videos","tag-entertainment","tag-human-rights","tag-politics","tag-potus","tag-tiktok"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}