Oops! U.S. plan backfires as China could determine who gets to buy TikTok in the U.S.

At the beginning of this month, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order demanding that TikTok parent ByteDance divest itself of the popular short-form video app by the middle of September or get banned in the states. Users of the app can produce videos lasting 15 seconds to as long as 60 seconds. Content includes lipsyncing, dancing, gags, and more. Already wildly popular before the COVID-19 pandemic, teens and others used the app to kill time during those long, long days stuck at home. With 100 million users in the states and 800 million globally, TikTok has been installed over ...