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Biden Rescinds Trump’s Executive Orders Targeting TikTok, Other Tech Firms With China Ties

The administration ordered the Department of Commerce to closely monitor them

The Biden administration will keep its eye on tech companies with ties to ChinaBet_Noire/iStock
By David Cohen

June 10, 2021

President Joe Biden overturned executive orders from former President Donald Trump that aimed to prevent TikTok, WeChat and other communications and financial technology companies that are controlled by companies based in China from operating in the U.S., but those companies are not out of the woods yet.

David Cohen

David Cohen is editor of Adweek's Social Pro Daily.

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