The former American president and electoral candidate, Donald Trump (2017-2021), considered this Monday that TikTok poses a national threat, however he was not in favor of banning it, estimating that doing so would benefit Facebook.
Trump stressed in an interview on CNBC that TikTok has many good things and also many bad things, but that without that social network Facebook would grow.
“And I believe that Facebook is an enemy of the people, as well as many other media,” said the former president, who admitted that the decision in this regard is complicated.
The eventual veto of TikTok, in his opinion, “would make Facebook and others, but mainly Facebook”, its “big beneficiaries”, and for Trump the platform of Mark Zuckerberg It is “very bad for the country.”
Last Thursday, the Energy and Commerce Committee of the United States House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese ownership if it does not want to be banned in the North American country.
The initiative has a long way to go to be approved since it needs the approval of both chambers – the House of Representatives and the Senate – and the Government, however the White House spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierrehas already said that the Executive believes that it is an “important” project.
Trump recently met at his mansion in Mar-a-Lago with the billionaire Jeff YassRepublican donor and investor in TikTok.
For Steve Bannonthe main ideologue of the movement that catapulted Trump to the White House, the defense that the latter is making about TikTok has a justification: “Simply: Yass money,” he said this weekend.
As president, Trump even banned both TikTok and TikTok via executive order. WeChat, but the measures faced legal challenges and never went into effect. EFE (I)
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