citing anonymous sources said the administration could soon announce a decision ordering ByteDance to divest its ownership in TikTok.
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., and U.S. tech giants like Facebook and Snapchat see it as a competitive threat. It has said it has tens of millions of U.S. users and hundreds of millions globally.
U.S. national-security officials have been reviewing the Musical.ly acquisition in recent months, while U.S. armed forces have banned their employees from installing TikTok on government-issued phones. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this month that the U.S. was considering banning TikTok. The Trump administration has stepped in before to block or dissolve deals on national-security concerns, includingfrom its $117 billion bid for U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm in 2018 in an effort to help retain U.S. leadership in the telecom space. It also told China’s Beijing Kunlun Tech Co. to sell off its 2016 purchase of gay dating app Grindr.banned dozens of Chinese apps, including TikTok, citing privacy concerns, amid tensions between the countries.
I feel much more comfortable knowing it will be Microsoft that is data mining my hardware through this app instead of the China. /s
Why buy it... China has stolen intellectual properties from the US for years. Let’s have a “new” app called TicToc that lets people make short videos and make their own versions to the same background and stuff like that... What a great “new” idea in America!!!
. Can Microsoft wipe out every backdoor and Trojan of the existing TikTok app. ? .
NO. Bad Microsoft Let TikTok and all variations of the app die.
Lorddd, I personally couldn’t care less if TikTok gets banned or not, but make up your mind! Do you want TikTok to stay or leave?
Ya right. Like I trust any of the these apps. They are are trying to control our thoughts. To be quit honest the world would be better off with less of theses evil big tech Corps. Bunch of spies.
👏👏👏 ban that spy shit
He's just a big ass baby that's butt hurt over being trolled by teenagers.
Haha...I predicted exactly this as soon as I heard about the so called 'ban' on TikTok. Now sit back and watch as this hilariously backfires on Trump.
Trump doesn't care about security, he's pissed that zoomers are using it to troll his campaign.
So if China was stealing our info via tik took what do you think Microsoft is going to do?
If Microsoft buys tiktok we should boycottMicrosoft
Is TikTok really worth all this talk? One less platform for kids to waste time on. Who cares.
What surprises me is tiktok_us was made and developed in the US. . . Also wonder if realDonaldTrump realizes he had a great deal of supporters on the app. . .
No to tiktok, no to China.
Bottom line it’s a app Trump can’t use and he’s frustrated everyone else is having fun with it at his cost 😂🤣😂😂🤣😂
FPoShan That’ll take away tRump’s national security argument. What’ll he think of next?
SethAbramson Not in the immediate future.
this is how business is done in the USA! This is called 'fair' competition! Ahahahaaa!
My Joke of the day on TikTok about the purchase.
That figures. Microsoft is almost as bad as China.
Cruellaisdevine On hold 👇
Cruellaisdevine Shades of Zuckerberg’s apoplexy.
hahahhahah Microsoft is the biggest privacy invader since it's inception™ 😂😂🤦🏻
Shake down.
How is this in the best interest of the consumer? Multinational companies don't innovate they assimilate.
Donate to the Postal Service first
Trump might as well take his name off the ballot for any 18-27 year old voting this November if he tries to bans TokTok.
Mmm k
the is when tik tok went down
Damn shame. tiktok_us is a huge medium for humanTraffick. Shame on you Microsoft
Lol of course it would be Microsoft.
We need tiktok to do silly dance challenges 😝 tiktok_us
It’s for sure NOT over security concerns! 🤣🤣🤣
Great. So our information will flow *through* an American company who will steal all that info on its way to China. You know China’s never going to give up the data collection they built that app for.
The real reason The Orange one wants to ban TikTok? They trolled/ruined his Tulsa rally.
And the panic buying begins. . .
Punkd
Better Microsoft then Zuckerberg
And this is how the companies get stolen .. nice schema
so MS in bed with china eh.. no surprise
What is that devil Trump up to now!
Good luck trump, what do you plan to do? Turn off they're power...
Good! The people that partake in the app have no idea that the Chinese republic use it as a surveillance tool to map out our country. Greet rid of the drones that they built as well!,
The rest of the world should ban US social media too, they're literally spyware.
Well Trump doesn't have to worry about Tik Tok now. Microsoft will surely kill it all on its own.
Where was Trump’s “security concern” when Russia meddled in our election?
This is US freedom and fair How fair it is US can rob a company like a bitch
ResignNowTrump
Trump helping Bill Gates work a deal.
What anout literally every otheer social media they take the data and sell it too
When you can't beat them, ban them and have one of your crony companies aka microsoft take them over. Yay for American capitalism.
That would make it illegal to ban as it is no longer foreign owned. Smart move by the CCP using their influence over US tech companies.
So instead of China gathering data on Americans Microsoft will? Ppfff!
trump feels more threatened by an app than a deadly virus how embarrassing
So it's just hot air coming out of his mouth... he does need to ban it really.
Now that conspiracy theorists are going crazy, as if they aren't crazy enough (or not) enough
No they’re not..... Stop with over 48hrs old news lie ......thank you
This is the correct answer. Give U.S. citizens the freedom to participate but close up security issues that were posed by ByteDance's ownership.
Anti Vaxxers are absolutely furious about this!
Headline is a lie. Trump is not banning Tik Tok. Get a grip.
I’m switching to PlayStation
Please just let it die
Trump is a numpty best ignored
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