TikTok Plays Defense After President Trump Threatens a Ban

Is the popular video-sharing platform's time up in the U.S?

Tensions flared between the White House and short-form video app TikTok Friday night when President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he intended to ban the app from the U.S. as soon as today.

Trump told reporters Friday he could invoke emergency economic powers, presumably those granted by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a broad 1977 law whereby presidents can regulate commerce citing extraordinary national threats. There are steps the administration could take to make TikTok’s business more difficult to operate.

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