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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Document confirms TikTok ban is a trojan horse
Pro Palestinian posts also received 5x as many views. One potential stumbling block to a TikTok sale is that the market for social media services is highly concentrated, antitrust experts say.
That could make it hard for TikTok to find a buyer that US competition regulators could accept.
“Who’s going to buy it? That’s the real question,” said Gene Kimmelman, a former Justice Department antitrust official. “If it’s Amazon, Microsoft, Google or Meta, I just think you’re going to see substantial antitrust concern.”
All four of those tech giants have come under tremendous antitrust scrutiny in recent years, with the Justice Department or the Federal Trade Commission suing each of them for alleged violations of US competition law.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called on Senate lawmakers to take “swift action” on the TikTok bill just passed by the House.
“We want to see the Senate take swift action,” Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One Wednesday en route to Wisconsin.
President Joe Biden has previously come out in support of the bill, saying he would sign it if it reached his desk.
Jean-Pierre added that the White House does not expect the bill to affect the US-China relationship, even as Chinese officials warned this week that passage of the legislation would “backfire” on the United States.
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