The Trump Administration Ghosts TikTok Ahead of U.S. Ban

The social media company has averted several tough deadlines already

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TikTok is, once again, going to court to try and avoid an all-out ban that’s set to take effect Thursday.

This year has been a wild ride for the short-form social video site. As its popularity in the United States has skyrocketed, it has been met with a regulatory salvo by the Trump administration. But oddly, the government has ignored TikTok completely of late. It’s possible, as The Verge put it, that the administration—just voted out of office—has “forgotten about trying to ban” the app.

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