President Donald Trump on Wednesday batted down the national security concerns surrounding TikTok, saying, “Is it that important for China to be spying on young people? On young kids watching crazy videos?

President Donald Trump dismissed the threat of TikTok potentially spying on American children in an interview with Sean Hannity, saying Chinese-made phones and computers could be a bigger risk.

President Donald Trump downplayed the national security risk posed by TikTok in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, days after offering the social video app a reprieve from legislation that would have forced it to shut down.

For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,

It’s not yet known how Donald Trump will resolve TikTok’s complicated legal limbo, but what does seem clear is that the fate of the social media app is increasingly linked in the president's mind to his top issue of tariffs.

In his first few days back in office, President Trump is talking about TikTok entirely as a deal making exercise, dropping all of his previously expressed concerns about Chinese influence and American national security.

Columnist David Marcus writes that TikTok must be taken out of the Chinese Communist Party's hands if it is to turn the lights back on.

Anti-TikTok sentiment rapidly accelerated through all branches of government. A congressional bill demanding ByteDance sell its stake in their app to an American buyer or face expulsion from the country vote received a bipartisan vote, was signed by President Joe Biden and upheld by a 7-2 Supreme Court decision.

RedNote, called Xiaohongshu in Chinese — which literally translates as Little Red Book, an apparent reference to former dictator Chairman Mao Zedong — is also required to follow the Chinese Communist Party’s regulations, but has yet to exert its moderation of English language content to meet these standards.

The founder of the app’s parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year.

The Supreme Court upheld the TikTok ban, causing the app to go dark for half a day. Then, Trump issued an executive order to postpone the ban for 75 days, allowing TikTok to go back online. Beyond the legal complexities,

State media hailed RedNote's success among American "TikTok refugees" as a repudiation of U.S. government "demonizing" of China's development.