At one time toward the end of his presidency, Donald Trump’s administration pushed for the sale of TikTok out of the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. Trump, at the time, was wholly correct in his desire to do so – the problems with the app and how it subverts American interests and American youth are well-documented.
But Trump appears to have flipped his position, and has recently been attacking attempts to “ban” TikTok as something meant to empower Facebook, a social media app he has a grudge against.
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In truth, the policy of going after TikTok’s parent company to force them to sell isn’t a ban of the app outright. All ByteDance needs to do is divest itself of TikTok. If it sells the app, it remains on the market in the U.S.
But the Chinese government says they will forbid that from happening,…
