{"id":28806,"date":"2024-04-24T21:01:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/us-president-joe-biden-signs-bill-to-ban-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T21:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:01:30","slug":"us-president-joe-biden-signs-bill-to-ban-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/us-president-joe-biden-signs-bill-to-ban-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Joe Biden signs bill to ban TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has signed into law a bill seeking to ban social media app, TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>The bill which was earlier passed by the U.S. Congress requires TikTok\u2019s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app within nine months, or face a ban in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Biden signed the bill attached to the $95 billion foreign aid package Congress approved this week that will deliver more funding to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, TikTok has vowed to take legal action against the new law.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok spokesperson Alex Haurek called the law \u201cunconstitutional\u201d in a statement and vowed to \u201cchallenge it in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TikTok won a legal battle against former President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt in 2020 to force the sale of TikTok via an executive order that would prohibit any U.S.-based transactions with ByteDance if the company did not divest the app within 45 days.<\/p>\n<p>US President Joe Biden signs bill to ban TikTok<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has signed into law a bill seeking to ban social media app,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13664,15,7146,14389],"tags":[11831,5430,180,1095,7147],"class_list":["post-28806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joe-biden","category-news","category-tiktok","category-us-president","tag-biden","tag-joe","tag-news","tag-president","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}