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White House opens TikTok account despite upcoming ban

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The @WhiteHouse account has already garnered more than 80,000 followers since launching on Tuesday with a short video montage of the President captioned ” America we are BACK! What’s up TikTok?”.

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  • The White House has launched an official TikTok account.
  • A US law requires TikTok to halt operations unless ByteDance sells its US business. 17s
  • Trump previously called TikTok a national emergency due to data concerns. 27s
  • Despite earlier sanctions, Trump used TikTok during his campaign and extended the sell-off deadline. 42s
  • The deadline for TikTok's US operations to be sold is set for September 17th. 51s
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