NEW YORK — President Donald Trump says he wants to take action to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns.
It’s not clear whether Trump would accept a divestment as a concession. But there have been reports of U.S. tech giants and financial firms being interested in buying or investing in TikTok as the Trump administration sets its sights on the app.A. ByteDance launched TikTok in 2017, then bought Musical.ly, a video service popular with teens in the U.S. and Europe, and combined the two. A twin service, Douyin, is available for Chinese users.
“I think a total spin-off or U.S. tech firm acquisition is the likely scenario here so it can keep operating,” he added.A. Many are trying to move followers to other platforms like YouTube and Triller, an entertainment platform built for creators. Some are trying to monetize through sites like Patreon, a crowdfunding platform for artists, musicians and other creators, says Amber Atherton, CEO at Zyper, a community marketing platform that connects brands with the top 1% of their superfans.
He's blowing smoke again. ZZZZ
With a bit of luck, the volume will get turned down on their Twitter clips.
TikTok won’t be banned. This is President's The Art to The Deal
Does Donny know how many supporters he has on this app he wouldn't even think of doing this
It shot not be acquired by a U.S firm
Why doesn’t an American just create an app called toktik or something that is literally the same format or essentially just the same thing but just a casual social media with no secret job of wrong doings. Then all the teens who use tiktok have soemthing to bounce to.
Give it a week. There will be a different App that people will use to make fun of him.
1 Nobody knows if tiktok has a connection or reports to the china government. It is just a trump tweet 2 It is a FACT that US tech/internet firms MUST share their data with US government agencies 3 BTW that's why many EU firms leave US servers 3 So where is the real danger?
Stop it
America hates Chinese people making money... that's it. This tirade against Chinese companies is steeped in White Supremacy. If White people can't get a finger in the pie they'll destroy it.
If TikTok is that bad why are American investirs trying to get if from China to become American tech Just bcoz it is becoming a major competitor to Facebook YouTube and Instagram Bunch of biased envious Americans who hides behind lose of privacy propaganda
It's the Donald just blowing smoke out his ass again....all bark no plan
I couldn’t do the survey as I only read the articles here on Twitter
Really just ask Huawei
That shit is done for. Unless Facebook sucks it in like they did with Instagram, and WhatsApp, and GIPHY
Or not
US is really dangerous to international companies.👽
This spyware and propagandaware must be switched off the Western Democracies. As long as there is a Great Chinese Firewall jailing China controlled by the ChCP, there must be an external firewall ringfencing China controlled by the West. Only the US is capable of this.
Well, farmers will loose orders, and apple could be banned there.
The folks at Tik Tok could not have imagined the PR they are getting..must be laughing all the way to the bank.
How about banning all non-US apps, goods, people, locking US in a dome and smashing the key?
More threats from a washed up bully🙄
they will only have the American Tiktok party, but the application will remain Chinese, Trump is a clown, he does it mainly to hope for a media glare cost for his campaign
Trump just tries to avoid millions of dollars to migrate towards China. It's all about the money for him. Regardless any side effects.
Moscow Mitch Mrs McConnell the only living turtle head creature and the worst human most likely to be murdered.
It's too bad that he hasn't been smart enough to exploit TikTok to his benefit, like Twitter. If he did, he would demand that every phone had it.
Guess china isn't going to buy those farm crops to help Trump win the election.
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