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Trump joins TikTok and calls it 'an honor.' As president he once tried to ban the video-sharing app
Read full article: Trump joins TikTok and calls it 'an honor.' As president he once tried to ban the video-sharing appDonald Trump has joined TikTok, the video-sharing app he once tried to ban as president.
President Trump says heโs banning TikTok in the U.S.
Read full article: President Trump says heโs banning TikTok in the U.S.President Donald Trump said on Friday night that he would ban the popular video sharing app TikTok. โAs far as TikTok is concerned weโre banning them from the United States,โ Trump said aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington after a fundraising trip to Florida. Trump described the action as โseveranceโ and said he could sign an order as soon as Saturday. โI can do it with an executive order or that,โ Trump said, referring to emergency economic powers. A spokesperson for TikTok said in a statement that the app is a job creator committed to the privacy of its 100 million users in the United States.
Teens of TikTok take on school shootings
Read full article: Teens of TikTok take on school shootingsRecently it has become a platform where some students are turning to share their anxiety surrounding school shootings, but in Gen Z fashion. The teens of TikTok have taken on wealth inequality, climate change and the mercurial attentions of a slacktivist public. Now, with a series of brutal, darkly funny memes, they've turned a narrowed eye toward school shootings. For months following the attack, high school students around the country mobilized to call for more meaningful ways to address gun violence. To these bizarre, funny, creative TikTok teens, the joke isn't that school shootings happen.