Trump issues decree to ban TikTok in the US in 45 days if not sold

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(CNN) - President Donald Trump has issued a decree that will ban the TikTok social media app from operating in the United States in 45 days if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not sell it.

The order does not establish that a certain amount of money must be sent from the sale to the United States Treasury Department, which the President has been insisting on for several days.

The order alleges that TikTok "automatically captures large tracts of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information, such as location data and search and search history. This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party to access Americans' personal and private information, which could allow China to track the locations of federal employees and contractors, create personal information files for blackmail, and conduct espionage. corporate".

He also claims that the platform censors "content that the Chinese Communist Party considers politically sensitive" and "can also be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the Chinese Communist Party, such as when TikTok videos spread discredited conspiracy theories about the origins of the coronavirus 2019. »

The order states: “The following actions will be prohibited from 45 days after the date of this order, to the extent permitted by applicable law: any transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to jurisdiction of the United States, with ByteDance Ltd. (also known as Zìjié Tiàodòng), Beijing, China, or its subsidiaries, in which any company has an interest, as identified by the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) in section 1 (c) of this order «.

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