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March 26, 2024

What happens if TikTok goes away

By HALELUYA HADERO and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO
Associated Press

NEW YORK — If content creators and corporate executives made TikTok videos about the platform's possible U.S. demise, disco diva Gloria Gaynor's “I Will Survive” could supply the soundtrack.

Sure, businesses that built strategies around TikTok and promote products there would prefer not to seek eyeballs on another app. Smaller firms and solo entrepreneurs are bound to feel more pain in the event of a breakup. But if the popular video-sharing service remains under Chinese ownership and Congress bans it, many companies would learn to get along.


 
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