Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is again emphasising that he supports TikTok even if Chinese parent company ByteDance fails to divest itself of American interests.
“I’m for TikTok because you need competition. If you don’t have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram,” Trump told Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Trump previously called TikTok, which is used by 170 million Americans, a threat, but is now active on the medium himself.
Perhaps that turn can be explained by the fact that Trump had been suspended by Facebook and Instagram in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill riot on 6 January 2021.
The restrictions have since been lifted.
In June 2021, President Joe Biden ruled that Chinese companies like WeChat and TikTok will be banned under current conditions.
Trump himself has a majority stake in the social media company Trump Media and Technology Group, which operates the rival network Truth Social.
The hearing before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia will determine TikTok’s fate in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election.
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