Microsoft may be in talks to buy TikTok; Trump mulls banning Chinese app

Trump's comments came after published reports suggested his administration was planning to order China's ByteDance to sell TikTok

Amid reports that the US was planning to order China's ByteDance to sell popular video app TikTok and tech giant Microsoft was in talks to purchase it, President Donald Trump on Friday said that his administration was weighing action against the popular app, which had been "a source of national-security and censorship concerns". 

"We are looking at TikTok," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things. There are a couple of options, but a lot of things are happening. So we'll see what happens."

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