Threat of US ban surges after TikTok lambasted in Congress


WASHINGTON (AFP): A US ban of Chinese-owned TikTok, the country's most popular social media for young people, seems increasingly inevitable a day after the brutal grilling of its CEO by Washington lawmakers from across the political divide.

But the Biden administration will have to move carefully in denying 150 million young Americans their favoUrite platform over its links to China, especially after a previous effort by then president Donald Trump was struck down by a US court.

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