SAN FRANCISCO: TikTok on Monday (Aug 17) stepped up its defence against US accusations that the popular video app is a national security threat, ...
The company, owned by China-based ByteDance, also launched a new @tiktok_comms Twitter account to address issues in real time.
The US leader early this month also ordered a ban on the messaging app WeChat which is used extensively in China.On Friday, Trump signed a separate executive order for ByteDance to sell its interest in Musical.ly, the app it bought and merged with TikTok in 2017, citing national security. TikTok also repeated its intention to"pursue all remedies available to us in order to ensure that the rule of law is not discarded."China meanwhile Monday slammed Washington for using"digital gunboat diplomacy" in the TikTok case.
But the app has been"unable to escape the robbery through trickery undertaken by some people in the US based on bandit logic and political self-interest," Zhao said at a regular press conference.
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