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TIKTOK TO LEAVE US ON 19 JANUARY

TikTok has made it clear that it's ready to leave the United States on 19 January.

The United States Supreme Court says the social media platform can stay if it's sold by its China-based parent company to a non-China-based company.

ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok said that option is “not possible” Not commercially, technologically, not legally”, according to The Guardian.

Now, it all comes down to a court case.

The arguments in court lasted more than two and a half hours and centred around the arguments of free speech and national security concerns.

The US government argues that the company’s connections to China are a national security threat and that it overrides free speech.

In the US alone, there are about 170 million users. One of those users is President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump, who’ll be inaugurated on 20 January, has 14.7 million followers on TikTok. He recently called for the deadline to be pushed back so that he has time to negotiate a “political resolution”.

Image credit: Midland Daily News


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