Could Trump Buy TikTok?
Though he helped start the anti-TikTok movement in 2020 during his first term, Trump has since reversed course to support a compromise to save the app. (Rebecca Noble via Getty Images)
TikTok seems doomed—unless an unlikely savior rides to the rescue, Joe Nocera reports.
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Has there ever been a more aptly named platform than TikTok?
When this all began—April 24, 2024, the day President Joe Biden signed a law ordering the Chinese company ByteDance to either sell or shut down its addictive social media app TikTok—there were 270 days to do a deal before the January 19, 2025 deadline. Plenty of time, right?
Today, with five day…
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