Trump tipped to force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell the app

Microsoft reportedly in the ring

Sources to Bloomberg claim President Donald Trump will order China-based ByteDance to sell off its social video app TikTok to a U.S. buyer. Fox Business is hearing that Microsoft has expressed interest in purchasing.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has been looking into ByteDance's acquisition since October over questions of whether the company was censoring content on TikTok similar to the way it does for Douyin, an equivalent app operating solely in China and subject to strict firewalling, and whether user data was being passed along to the central government and abused.

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