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After asking employees to delete TkikTok, Amazon says email was a mistake

The initial internal email, which was disseminated widely online, told employees to delete TikTok, a video app increasingly popular with young people

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The email cited security risks of the TikTok app.

AP Seattle
Roughly five hours after an internal email went out to employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, Amazon appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake.

This morning's email to some of our employees was sent in error. There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok, Amazon emailed reporters just before 5 p.m. Eastern time.

Spokeswoman Jaci Anderson declined to answer questions about what happened.

The initial internal email, which was disseminated widely online, told employees to delete TikTok, a video app increasingly popular with young people but also

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