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TikTok Tension: U.S. Users Mob Smaller Chinese App, Rivals YouTube Shorts & Instagram Reels Stand By; Trump Ponders Executive Order Delaying Sale, Ban
As TikTok awaits its fate at the Supreme Court, U.S. users mob a smaller Chinese app. Rivals YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels stand by.
The wildly popular social media platform owned by China’s ByteDance could shut down in the U.S. on Jan. 19 – just four days from now — or sell itself to an entity Stateside if the Justices do not rule otherwise. In 2020, then President Donald Trump tried to force a ban or sale as well but let that effort fizzle although Microsoft had emerged as a bidder as well as a investor consortium including Oracle. He is considering an executive order to block a ban, according to the Washington Post today, although it’s not clear that could overturn a law from Congress and a Supreme Court ruling – depending how that goes.
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