Despite Biden's recent threat to the Chinese-owned app, a national ban is unlikely, and a forced sale would get messy.
The popular short-video app says a federal agency has said it will be banned in the United States unless its Chinese owners sell their shares. Not surprisingly, users are pushing back.
ByteDance relies on Chinese government approval to operate, subjecting it to pressures that firms such as Meta escape. Yet even while raising countless red flags because of its ownership structure and privacy concerns, TikTok is outcompeting other top social media firms in the U.S., hugely shaping how people get information and remaining extremely popular. The company counts more thanTikTok has already survived a ban attempt by the U.S. government.
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