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Before Big Hill Vote On TikTok, Trump Pivots, Says Ban Would Just Empower Facebook

In this photo illustration taken on April 21, 2022, the icon of an video sharing mobile phone application TikTok is pictured on a mobile phone used by an Afghan youth in Kabul. - The Taliban ordered a ban against video-sharing app TikTok and the survival-shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) game on April 21, insisting they were leading Afghanistan's youth astray. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / various sources / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/Afghanistan/AFP via Getty Images)

The House is set this week to take a final vote on a measure to keep TikTok from being downloaded from online app stores to smart phone, amid concerns the China-affiliated owner of the social media platform is sharing American user info with the Chineses Communist Party.

Trump as president tried to ban TikTok, but as a 2024 candidate he says whether to make such a move is a “tough decision.”

“Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump said in an interview Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

There’s a lot of good and there’s a lot of bad” with the platform,” He also said. “There are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it.”
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