: Negotiations for Microsoft to buy the US operations of Chinese-owned TikTok are on hold after President Donald Trump threatened to bar the social media app and came out against the sale, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
“Before Mr. Trump’s remarks, the two sides believed the broad strokes of a deal could be in place by Monday,“ the paper reported on a possible TikTok-Microsoft sale, citing unnamed sources. It has grown even faster as the coronavirus pandemic has pushed people physically away from each other, but into close contact online.
“A 100 percent sale to an American company would have been considered a radical solution two weeks ago and, eventually, mitigates any reasonable data protection concerns,“ he wrote on Twitter.One clip that was liked over 300,000 times shows a young woman stacking bricks and smearing orange paint on her face, apparent digs at the president’s skin tone and controversial pledge to build a wall between the US and Mexico.
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