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Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.
From Associated Press News
President Trump plans to meet with top White House officials on Wednesday to discuss a proposal that could secure TikTok’s future in the United States, two people familiar with the plans said.
From The New York Times
Despite a bipartisan consensus about the risk to national security posed by TikTok’s ties to China, "it’s as if nothing ever happened,” said Sarah Kreps, director of Cornell University’s Tech Policy ...
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