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The new threat to TikTok

How a Biden executive order could turn up the pressure

Casey Newton
Jun 10, 2021
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The new threat to TikTok
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Illustration of the TikTok app icon. Alexander Shatov / Unsplash
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In February, after a tumultuous year, the Biden administration abandoned a plan to force ByteDance to sell TikTok. Former President Donald Trump’s efforts to wrest TikTok away from China and award it to an American consortium led by Oracle and Walmart appeared to have ended with his term. For the moment, it seemed, TikTok had …

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