> 'On August 6, Trump signed an executive order banning the platform in 45 days if it is not sold by ByteDance.

Donald Trump left office January 20, 2021. The following June, new president Joe Biden signed an executive order revoking the Trump administration ban on TikTok.

In June 2022 reports emerged that ByteDance employees in China could access US data and repeatedly accessed the private information of TikTok users.

On June 24 and June 28, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called for Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing national security concerns, saying TikTok "harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing.

By late 2022 both Republicans and Democrats were coming to the conclusion that Trump was right with Senator Warner VA stated “As painful as it is for me to say, if Donald Trump was right and we could’ve taken action then, that’d have been a heck of a lot easier than trying to take action in November of 2022,” Warner told Recode. “The sooner we bite the bullet, the better.”'