The US President Joe Biden has said that he did not know whether the Chinese short video app TikTok was going to be banned or not.
Biden said that he was not sure about the ban of TikTok, adding that he did not have the app in his phone.
US President was responding to a question of reporter after returning from a weekend retreat in Camp David.
President Joe Biden approved a limited TikTok ban last year, when he signed the 4,126-page spending bill into law. The ban prohibits the use of TikTok by the federal government’s nearly 4 million employees on devices owned by its agencies, with limited exceptions for law enforcement, national security and security research purposes.
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The ban comes after a wave of actions against the viral video app in recent weeks amid mounting security concerns raised by media reports, China hawks and politicians. Given the increasing scrutiny of TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company Bytedance, it could be just the beginning of challenges to come for the app.
