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The White House is on TikTok now, which is technically banned in the US


The White House joined TikTok, despite ongoing legal battles surrounding the use of the Chinese-owned app.

The White House joined TikTok on Tuesday, where it’s sharing video clips of President Donald Trump and his staff that attempt to portray them as a quick-witted, rebellious American leaders. Trump himself initiated the calls to ban TikTok nationally in 2020, citing the danger of the Chinese Communist Party potentially accessing American user data. As of Wednesday morning, each of the five videos that the White House has uploaded to TikTok have been spammed with negative comments, many of them referencing the president’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted child sex offender who died awaiting trial.

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