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The TikTok ban

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The U.S. Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law a measure banning TikTok if it weren’t sold by its Chinese ownership. But now-President Donald Trump gave the service a reprieve, and a sale of its U.S. operations appears imminent.

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Why is the U.S. forcing the sale of TikTok?

Proponents of the sale — or failing that, a ban in the U.S. — have expressed concern that user data from the app might be shared by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, with the Chinese government. 

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