TikTok can be banned ‘within weeks’

TikTok could be banned in the US “within weeks” as Donald Trump’s administration looks to blacklist the Chinese-owned viral video app over security concerns.

White House officials are considering placing ByteDance, the Beijing-headquartered owner of TikTok, on the US department of commerce’s entity list in a move that would effectively bar the use of the app, according to the Financial Times.

Mark Meadows, the US President’s chief of staff, said that officials were looking at TikTok and other apps that “have the potential for national security exposure” over fears information was being gathered “on American citizens by a foreign adversary”.