Big Tech, Censorship, and Socialism
TikTok is banned in China, where its parent company, ByteDance, runs the China-only Douyin video app instead.
When Trump administration officials announced that a TikTok U.S. deal was imminent, they stressed that the deal would bring the popular social media app’s algorithm completely under U.S. control.
“This is going to be American-operated all the way,” President Donald Trump said after signing the executive order to authorize a TikTok U.S. deal and give the parties 120 days to close it.
