Oh, the irony: Trump’s executive order accuses TikTok of spreading COVID-19 misinformation

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President Donald Trump did it. He just signed the executive order to ban any US-based company’s transaction with TikTok and WeChat after 45 days from now. In the order, he said that TikTok captures information from its users and it may be used by China to track the location of Federal employees: TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including the Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories.  This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China…

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