China's ByteDance agrees TikTok sale as US ban looms for video app

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The Chinese firm had been keen to retain a minority stake in the business but was forced to take swift action after the US president pledged to ban TikTok from the US over security concerns

The Chinese owner of TikTok was last night scrambling to sell the viral video app to Microsoft after Donald Trump pledged to ban the platform in the United States.

 

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TikTok responds to Trump: 'We're not planning on going anywhere' Hours after President Trump announced he was planning to ban TikTok from the U.S. The company responded with a video message on Twitter saying it's 'not planning on going anywhere.'

why is he beating up on them for?

Ban it regardless. Chinese dormant backdoors into the program make it a permanent threat.

what the US is doing to TikTok warns other Chinese IT companies not to put their investment and HQs in the US anymore, go to european countries.

anyways

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