TikTok prepares to shut down their app in the US unless Biden makes assurances [Video]

There’s a lot of change in the United States around the time of a presidential inauguration, new cabinet members, new furniture in the Oval Office and this year there’s a lot of change happening on social media too.

Last week we had Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg move toward an Elon Musk style system of labelling fake content, using the broader community of users instead of paid fact-checkers.

But the real issue for social media users in the USA is the shutdown of TikTok.

When the US Congress ruled overwhelmingly to ban the Chinese owned social media app in the USA they put in place a long delay before it would be implemented.

That delay places the ban on TikTok on January 19, around 32 hours before Donald Trump is sworn …