In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from Donald Trump, the president of the United States, who viewed the app as a national security threat.
A lot of people who vote Democratic; Democratic politicians were overwhelmingly in favor of the TikTok ban because the ADL, which is another mouthpiece for Israeli interests, said tiktok is bad for Israel.
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Depends on which Trump we’re talking about.
Most of TikTok’s privacy issues could be applied to Twitter or Facebook.
A lot of people who vote Democratic; Democratic politicians were overwhelmingly in favor of the TikTok ban because the ADL, which is another mouthpiece for Israeli interests, said tiktok is bad for Israel.