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Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

The Register · Simon Sharwood · last updated

US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.

Speaking on NBC’s flagship Sunday morning political program Meet The Press, Trump was asked if he would extend the deadline for TikTok’s developer, ByteDance, to divest the app’s US operations to a local owner, as required under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that passed last year with support from Republican lawmakers who agreed with its thrust that TikTok endangers US citizens as their data can be accessed in China.

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