TikTok’s greatest downside is outdoors its management

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Final week I wrote about a few of the forces placing the squeeze on TikTok — and, uncharacteristically for me once I write about TikTok, the course of occasions didn’t instantly reverse and put TikTok right into a stronger place. As a substitute, by a number of measures, the scenario for ByteDance’s common video app obtained considerably worse.

For starters, Peter Navarro, an adviser to the president, mentioned in an interview with Fox Information on Sunday that he expects President Trump will take “sturdy motion” in opposition to TikTok and a fellow Chinese language-made social app, WeChat. Worse from ByteDance’s perspective is that Navarro mentioned america is not going to again down even when TikTok is offered to an American purchaser. Right here’s Bloomberg:

The Trump administration is “simply…

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