The company denied offering knowledge of the application to the Chinese government. “While we comment on rumors or speculation, we are confident of TikTok’s long-term good fortune,” TikTok said after Trump’s statement.
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TikTok is very popular with millions of Americans in recent years, especially teenagers, who use it to make short videos. Some of the platform’s biggest stars, which have amassed millions of fans on the platform, wept their completion from Friday to Saturday morning.
Baby Ariel, whose real call is Ariel Martin, is known as one of TikTok’s top users followed, having accumulated 34.5 million subscribers on the platform.
“I hate Donald Trump,” tweeted the 19-year-old singer, who is a singer.
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YouTube star Larri Merritt, who earned more than $10 million on his TikTok account from larrayeeee, reacted to the news by asking his fans to other users.
“on a serious note if tiktok is really eliminated. Please, your favorite little creators of tiktok. Follow us on YouTube, Instagram, etc. some of those kids are literally talented and deserve everything.”
Addison Rae, who along with her mother, Sheri Easterling, has a viral sensation in the app, alluded to her discontent with the upcoming ban on Friday afternoon, tweeting “UGH”.
Rae continued to post his sadness without particular identifying reason. “Be sad,” he wrote before sending two more tweets, writing, “Remember to be happy” and “it’s k 2 cry.”
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In the overnight hours, Rae tweeted “send flowers pls” and “bitter.”
Michael Le has over 34 million subscribers on the platform. He used his Instagram story to react.
“Goodbye tiktok in my chapter, ” he wrote with a sad-faced emoji.
Spencer X, also known as Spencer Knight, wrote in his Instagram story: “If he’s here, I love you.”
TikTok’s US EXECUTIVE Director Vanessa Pappas shared a video message on the app’s official Twitter account early Saturday.
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“I want to thank you to the millions of Americans who used TikTok every day bringing their creativity and joy into our daily lives. We’ve heard your outpouring of support and we want to say thank you. We’re not planning on going anywhere. TikTok is a home for creators and artists to express themselves, their ideas, and connect with people across different backgrounds and we are so proud of all of the various communities who call TikTok their home,” Pappas said.
He added: “I’m also proud of our 1,500 American painters who paint on this app every day.”
Despite the upcoming ban, Pappas said the platform planned to rent another 10,000 people in the United States to positions in the next 3 years.
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“I’m thrilled about our U.S. creative fund where we just announced our billion-dollar fund to support our creators. When it comes to safety and security, we’re building the safest app because we know it’s the right thing to do.”
A ban would put more pressure on TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell U.S. compliance operations amid national security considerations for user data. Microsoft is one of the leading purchase requesters.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier this month that the government envisaged banning TikTok for security reasons.
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Last week, the U.S. Senate Committee On National Security and Government Affairs approved an invoice to prohibit the application of government-issued devices to Reuters.
The Navy and army have already banned TikTok from government-issued phones and the Pentagon has asked workers to remove it from their phones, the Washington Post reported.
Brie Stimson of Fox News contributed to the report.