TikTok was hit hard when India decided to ban TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps, on the grounds of collecting lots of user data and threat to our nation.?
Soon after, Trump asked to ban TikTok which only made the matters worse for them, And now, POTUS Donald Trump has issued executive orders to ban Chinese social media app TikTok and WeChat.
The executive order clearly states that the apps will be banned from conducting any US transactions with ByteDance -- the company that owns TikTok and Tencent -- the company that owns WeChat in the coming 45 days.?
One of the orders by Trump states that TikTok may be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party and the US must take aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect our national security.?
For WeChat, the order complaints that the texting app has automatically captured vast swaths of information from its users. This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans¡¯ personal and proprietary information.
With this order, the apps TikTok and WeChat would be effectively be barred from functioning in the next 45 days "to the extent permitted under applicable law, any transaction that is related to WeChat by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with Tencent Holdings Ltd."
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Recently, Microsoft was making rounds, looking to buy TikTok¡¯s US operations. Trump had said this week that he would support this transaction if the government got a portion of the sales price, while also warning that they will ban the service in the United States on September 15, so the decision needed to be made before that.??
Today, TikTok enjoys over 100 million users in the United States alone. Surprisingly, during this time, Facebook¡¯s Instagram has introduced Reels -- a TikTok-like short video feature that users can add to the story.?