TikTok devotees up in arms and hashtags over US ban
President Donald Trump plans to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app but a Microsoft deal may save the day for it
04 August 2020 - 15:50
New York/San Francisco — Days after the US government challenged Facebook’s growing power over social media in a Congressional hearing, the Trump administration handed the company a gift.
Late last week, the president said he planned to shut down Facebook’s most formidable challenger: Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok. That threat sparked a panic among users that their digital clubhouse would soon be taken away or sold to Microsoft. It sent many popular TikTokers racing to move their creative endeavours to Instagram, the rival mobile app owned by Facebook...
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