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Washington (AFP) – In a major reversal, former US president Donald Trump on Monday said he was against a ban of TikTok as the fate of the popular video-sharing app was dragged into the US election campaign.

A new bill would force Beijing-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban on U.S. app stores.

As a bill that could shut down TikTok's U.S. presence hurtles forward, the company is calling on its creators to share what TikTok has meant to them. Many say the app has become a lifeline.

Bobby Kotick, former CEO of Activision, has floated idea of buying TikTok to potential partners.

American politicians are being inundated with calls from TikTok users unhappy at plans to force its parent company to sell the social media app.

Talks stumble over money, copyright and use of artificial intelligence

Under national fire last year — and still under official security review — TikTok spent money, made the right friends and appears back in the fold.

By comparison, he has a long way to go to catch up with his X accounts.

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Universal Music Group pulled songs by Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and other stars after failing to agree on a new contract. Here’s what’s at stake.

Universal Music Group threatens to remove music from social media platform

The app is offering incentives for creators who post long-form landscape videos, but many remain skeptical

Universal’s current contract with the social-media app is set to expire Wednesday, and no new agreement has been reached.

The video-sharing app said it had walled off American data in Project Texas, but employees said data is still sometimes shared with its China-based parent.

Matthew P Bergman’s firm has filed cases against Snap, TikTok and others, with a novel argument – that the products are harmful by design

The NetChoice trade group argues in its federal lawsuit that although Utah’s regulations are well-intentioned, they are unconstitutional.

What happens when a generation of Americans gets its news from an infinitely scrolling video app?

And TikTok Shop is proving to be remarkably effective at turning that screen time into shopping time.

This nation of 30 million people has banned TikTok, effective immediately, due to its threat to social order.

The creator fund also sparked backlash after a Forbes report showed that the company was storing creators’ data on servers in China when they promised to do so in the United States.