Video-sharing platform tells users company is working to give them 'the safest app'. FMTNews TikTok
SAN FRANCISCO: TikTok said Saturday it was “not planning on going anywhere” after President Donald Trump threatened to ban the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app from operating in the US.
On Friday, Trump told reporters travelling with him aboard Air Force One that he was moving to bar the app from having any US operations.ByteDance has offered to sell the app’s US operations as a way to avert Trump’s ban, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter.
“While we do not comment on rumours or speculation, we are confident in the long-term success of TikTok,” the company said when asked for comment on the Times article.For the long run“Banning an app that millions of Americans use to communicate with each other is a danger to free expression and is technologically impractical,” said the Aclu’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, Jennifer Granick.
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