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Inside the battle to ban TikTok’s rising influence

Inside the battle to ban TikTok’s rising influence

US Congress has taken a first step to forcing the app’s Chinese owner to sell it off. Can the company fight back?

Demetri Sevastopulo, James Fontanella-Khan and Tabby Kinde
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The day after American legislators voted overwhelmingly to force the Chinese owner of TikTok to sell the video-sharing app, its chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, expressed confusion.

“There’s a lot of noise,” he exclaimed last week during a visit to Capitol Hill. “But I haven’t heard exactly what we’ve done that is wrong.”

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