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TikTok now offers its Android app for download outside of Google Play
Android users can sideload TikTok now.
A TikTok help page claims that, nevertheless, the app “remains safe and secure.” It says that TikTok’s source code is still examined by Oracle and the “Independent Security Inspectors” that ByteDance selected last year following former reported accusations that its Project Texas effort to wall off its US operations from China and appease US lawmakers was “largely cosmetic.” That may not happen anytime soon, as neither Google nor Apple have seemed eager to defy the ban and risk billions in fines, despite President Trump’s executive order staying enforcement of it. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell you everything you need to download, watch, read, listen to, and explore that fits in The Verge’s universe.
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