How Donald Trump Lost the War on TikTok

'They escaped,' one expert said about the app. 'That's how I'd put it'

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“Please follow us on Instagram before TikTok is gone,” begged Self Defense Online, a mixed martial arts TikTok user, on Aug. 1. “Go follow me on IG so we don’t lose touch when TikTok is deleted and can continue the fun together!” dance instructor Julie Haneline pleaded that same day. 

These videos were ubiquitous for a brief moment this summer, and for good reason. As far as many TikTok creators knew, the app they had grown to love, which had given them a platform and occupied their days and nights in quarantine, was about to vanish.

But

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