Rediscovering America

  Does President Trump Have It Wrong on TikTok? by Scott S. Powell         In 2020, then President Trump 45 came to understand that TikTok was a creation of Bytedance, a company controlled by the Chinese government--specifically the CCP. So, in August of that year he signed an executive order requiring the CCP-controlled ByteDance to divest TikTok. A month later that order got blocked by a court injunction. But that was reversed by the Biden administration in 2021.        As it turned out, the executive order to restructure TikTok was unenforced until 2024, when the Israeli war against Hamas intensified and TikTok’s distinctly pro-Palestinian bias, was instrumental in disrupting many college and university campuses across the U.S. The U.S. Congress proposed and passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which again ordered that ByteDance divest TikTok due...