Currently owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, the popular short-video app has come under fire for siphoning user data which could easily end up in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and removing content that undermines party-peddled consensuses on issues such as the Tiananmen Square massacre and ongoing Hong Kong protests.
To halt a full-out ban on the app in the U.S. – recently executed by India – a Microsoft takeover of the app has been presented as a potential solution, championed even by President Trump.
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