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Trump to weigh options for potential TikTok deal

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The plan would be to spin out TikTok into a new company and bring on new American investors to reduce the ownership stakes of Chinese investors.
From The New York Times
As the deadline to strike a deal over TikTok approaches this week, President Donald Trump has signaled that he is confident his administration can broker an agreement with ByteDance, the social media...
From Fast Company
Both the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have warned that ByteDance could share user data — such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers — with China’s authoritarian gove...
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