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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US (www.bbc.com)

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[–] TokenBoomer 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Plausible deniability, 2 birds with 1 stone. There are hundreds of companies with foreign investors and influence. TikTok has tried to work with investigators and even spent $1.5 billion on a server framework for Project Texas. If TikTok was a crappy app and wasn’t the primary source of news for young adults, the government wouldn’t care.