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Donald Trump Joins TikTok, App He Had Tried to Ban as President Citing ‘Credible’ Threat to U.S. National Security
Donald Trump, seeking to retake the White House in 2024, joined TikTok, which he had threatened with a nationwide ban when he was U.S. president.
Trump’s launch on TikTok came two days after a New York jury found him guilty on 34 charges of falsifying business records, making him the first former U.S. president to be a convicted felon. A spokesman for the Trump campaign said it will leave “no front undefended” and that the launch on TikTok “represents the continued outreach to a younger audience consuming pro-Trump and anti-Biden content,” per Reuters. Steve Bannon, the right-wing media personality who was a one-time Trump adviser, has accused the former president of flip-flopping in his stance toward banning TikTok because of billionaire investor and major GOP donor Jeff Yass, who reportedly owns a 15% stake in ByteDance — and whose company was the biggest institutional shareholder of the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that merged with Trump Media & Technology Group, operator of the Truth Social platform.
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