00:00The White House appears to have a case of FOMO when it comes to TikTok and its 170 million users.
00:07That could explain why it's just launched an official account on the Chinese-owned social media platform
00:12less than a month before President Trump is set to ban it.
00:17A 2024 data protection law required TikTok to stop operating in January
00:22unless its owner ByteDance sold off its U.S. operations.
00:27Trump once called the spread of TikTok a national emergency
00:30and has said the app's data collection could give China access to Americans' personal information.
00:37During his first term, he signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the app,
00:42but he went on to use TikTok extensively during last year's presidential campaign
00:47and has since extended the deadline for the sell-off several times.
00:51It's currently set to come into force on September 17th.
