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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Rachel Dobkin

White House launches TikTok account weeks ahead of Trump’s extended deadline to ban app

The White House has launched a TikTok account weeks ahead of President Donald Trump’s extended deadline to ban the app.

Congress passed a bill last year, which former President Joe Biden subsequently signed into law, that gave TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, nine months to sell TikTok to a U.S.-approved company or face a nationwide ban.

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