Ban TikTok, the favorite app of 15-25 year old Americans? Donald Trump, it seems, did not think of it on his own. Converging clues suggest that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, gave him the idea a little less than a year ago. During a stay in Washington in October 2019, he "stoked the fears of the leaders against TikTok" , reveals the Wall Street Journal. By combing through the “Zuckerberg Files”, this database listing all the public speeches of the founder of the first social network in the world, it emerges that Mark Zuckerberg's anti-Chinese lobbying has never been as intense as it is. fall 2019. At the time, the Chinese application of mini-videos began to nibble market share on American social networks on the target of young people. Meanwhile, Facebook was cashing in on the hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising that TikTok was spending to make itself known!
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