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TikTok he has made segments such as his short videos a space for great creative challenge.
The controversy surrounding TikTok is not new in the United States, we remember the differences against the appsduring the government of Donald Trump.
TikTok could be prohibited from being used in certain devices in the United States and the measure revives the controversy that the administration of Donald Trump launched at the time against the apps China.
TikTok has allowed Zhang Yiming to amass the second largest fortune in the social media market, because the study “World’s Billionaires List: The Richest in 2022” estimated that he has 50 billion dollars in his bag, placing himself as the second richest man in the world who owns a social network, after Mark Zuckerberg, at the top of the list with a fortune of 67 thousand 300 million dollars.
“The impressive growth of social media companies in the early 2010s made many founders extremely wealthy. The founder of FacebookMark Zuckerberg, is the world’s richest social media entrepreneur with a personal net worth of $67.3 billion, up from $97 billion in 2021. Zhang Yiming, the creator of TikTokhas a fortune worth 50 billion dollars”, explains S. Dixon, an analyst at Statista when presenting the research.
The new lock against TikTok in the US
The United States government prohibited the operation of TikTok in government devices, within the bipartisan Expenditure Bill, which is currently being discussed in that country.
TikTok returns to the center of the discussion table, recalling the controversy over the presence of the popular apps China in the United States, since the call that Donald Trump made in his government against the development of bytedance.
The bill, yet to be signed into law by Joe Biden, calls for higher payments by merging companies and forces e-commerce sites to investigate trade in counterfeit goods.
About the veto against TikTok provided by law, its use in government devices is prohibited, it is an indirect support for national companies such as Snapchat and the apps de Meta, which for a long time have competed against TikTok.
Through a statement reported in the media and attributed to TikTokthe following is read:
“We are disappointed that Congress moved to ban TikTok on government devices, a political gesture that will do nothing to advance national security interests, instead encouraging the Administration to conclude its national security review.
The agreement that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is reviewing, it will significantly address any safety concerns that have been raised at both the federal and state levels. These plans have been developed under the supervision of our country’s leading national security agencies, plans that we are well advanced in implementing, to further secure our platform in the United States, and we will continue to inform lawmakers about them.”
The initiative against TikTok in the United States once again pits the government against a social network. In Mexico, the federal government has criticized social networks as Twitter.