Donald Trump Reverses Himself, Questions Ban On TikTok – By Igor Bobic (Huffpost) / March 8, 2024
The former president, who once threatened to ban the popular social media app himself, now says that doing so would only benefit competitors like Facebook.
WASHINGTON ― Former President Donald Trump raised concerns over efforts to ban the social media app TikTok this week, appearing to walk back the position he held in 2020, when he threatened to ban the app himself.
“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee wrote on his social media platform on Thursday, referring to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Trump said he didn’t want Facebook to “d[o] better,” calling the company “a true Enemy of the People.”
The Republican-controlled House is set to vote on a bill next week that would ban the video platform, now used by over 100 million Americans, if its Chinese parent company ByteDance fails to divest its ownership within six months or so.
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