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What the Tik Tok Ban Really Shows

The ByteDance-Beijing relationship is more familiar than one may think

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Sep 01, 2020
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On 14 August, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) giving ByteDance 90 days to divest the US operations of Tik Tok, its highly popular social media platform. The EO retrospectively invalidates the 2017 acquisition of Music.ly (the predecessor to Tik Tok), and requires ByteDance, along with its subsidiaries and Chinese investors, to cease owner…

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