TikTok says it will go dark on Sunday, January 19th if the Biden administration doesn’t intervene. The company says it will be “forced to go dark” on the 19th unless the outgoing administration provides a “definitive statement” assuring the app’s “most critical service providers” that they won’t be held liable for breaking the law.

The app says it will shut down Sunday unless the sitting president can assure tech companies that he won’t enforce the law.

So how could Trump or Biden prevent TikTok from going dark? BIDEN TO THE RESCUE? The TikTok law gives the president the authority to grant a one-time extension of up to 90 days on the deadline for a sale,