President Donald Trump said Friday that he plans to bar the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from operating in the United States, a move that comes as officials across Washington accuse the company of posing a national security risk.
"As far as TikTok is concerned we're banning them from the United States," Trump told reporters traveling with him from Tampa aboard Air Force One. He said he could take action against the company as soon as Saturday.
TikTok, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, has come under fire from lawmakers and government officials on both sides of the aisle over fears that it could turn over American users' information to the Chinese government. TikTok says it has not provided consumers' personal information to Beijing and would not do so.
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