President Trump signed an executive order Monday giving TikTok an additional 75 days before a law banning the popular video-sharing platform takes effect.

Trump instructed his attorney general not to enforce the law so his administration can “determine the appropriate course forward in an orderly way that protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown of a communications platform used by millions of Americans.”

TikTok briefly shut down the app in the U.S. over the weekend, leaving American users unable to access the platform for more than 12 hours starting late Saturday night.

The brief shutdown came as a law, which required the app’s China-based parent company ByteDance to divest from the platform or face a ban, took effect Sunday. The Supreme Court upheld the law Friday, ruling it did not violate the First Amendment and teeing up a ban.

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