By Ethan V.
TikTok, a VERY popular app with over 800 million users, is getting banned in multiple countries. The reason for this is that the company that makes the app, ByteDance, has been stealing its users' information. TikTok has been around since September 2016, and since then it has been downloaded over 1.5 billion times!
Some businesses have made their employees delete Tiktok, including Wells Fargo, Amazon and the US Military (Admiral Koko told us to delete TikTok a long time ago). India has banned the app after a violent clash with Chinese soldiers which made 20 Indian soldiers die at the Himalayan border. Because of this, the Indian Government banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok.
The US is trying to ban TikTok because of security reasons, but President Trump personally had a bad experience with the app. On June 20th, 2020 President Trump held a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma and it was trolled by TikTok users. Users each reserved hundreds of tickets and organizers of the rally were bragging about how many tickets were reserved only to have a turnout of 6,200 people. Maybe this was bad for Trump but I thought this was pretty funny.
Thanks for the explanation about TikTok. Glad I never used it.
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