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Donald Trump–TikTok controversy. In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then- president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat. The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance —which initially planned on selling a small ...
TikTok v. Trump was a lawsuit before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia filed in September 2020 by TikTok as a challenge to President Donald Trump 's executive order of August 6, 2020. The order prohibited the usage of TikTok in five stages, the first being the prohibition of downloading the application.
The change: Trump, who had been a critic of TikTok, issued an executive order on Aug. 6, 2020, that could have led to a ban, justifying “aggressive action against the owners of TikTok to protect ...
Former US President Donald Trump tried to ban the app when he was in the White House in 2020. ... The legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok to a new buyer, with an additional ...
Huebert wryly noted that if the U.S. government is so worried about the dangers of TikTok, “it’s really curious that the Vice President of the United States has a TikTok account.”. Vice ...
Federal. Executive Order 14034 ("EO 14034"), "Protecting Americans' Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries". In January 2020, the United States Army and Navy banned TikTok on government devices after the Defense Department labeled it a security risk. Before the policy change, army recruiters had been using the platform to attract young people.
Updated June 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM. Former President Donald Trump announced Saturday night that he has joined TikTok, even as many in his party criticize the popular app and call for its China-based ...
Publication date. August 11, 2020. (2020-08-11) Executive Order 13942 is an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on August 6, 2020. It directed the Secretary of Commerce to prohibit all transactions between anyone under the jurisdiction of the United States and ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok.