Some of the tiktokers who live at the Sway House, left, and Holly Hubert, who has 16.7 million followersBad news: if you somehow managed to escape being roped into a choreographed family dance by your grandchildren when they visited for Christmas and have spent lockdown studiously ignoring TikTok, your time is up. The world’s most powerful man, Donald Trump, has made it the focus of the 2020 US presidential election. Confronted by a Chinese app dominating the world, and worried about potential national security issues that could stem from that, Trump and his administration officials, including Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, have threatened to ban it. Trump later cooled his demands, saying that he would accept a sale to the US technology company Microsoft. However, the step back from the brink came with a caveat: the deal must be done

Source: The Times August 05, 2020 16:09 UTC