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TikTok survives Trump

So what now? PLUS: India ratchets up the pressure on social networks

Casey Newton
Feb 11, 2021
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Photo of the TikTok app on a phone. Olivier Bergeron / Unsplash
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Now that it’s all over, it sounds like a joke. The president of the United States, in keeping with his general xenophobia, demands that a Chinese social network operating in the United States be sold off to a group led by some of his top donors. And as a condition of the deal, why not, the network will donate $5 billion to the…

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