Is TikTok about to go full Maga?

TikTok是否即将全面拥抱“MAGA”了?

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2025-10-03

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Investigative journalist Emily Baker-White on the deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to Trump allies. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, is Trump seizing control of TikTok?

  • Donald Trump has signed a lot of executive orders in his time.

  • This one, last week, you might have heard about,

  • giving his approval to the sale of one of the world's most popular apps,

  • a $14 billion deal that could hand a huge chunk of TikTok's US arm from its Chinese owner to a group of American billionaires.

  • A very good talk with President Xi.

  • He gave us the go ahead.

  • You know, it's run by American investors.

  • The White House says this is a victory.

  • after long-running security fears about TikTok and Chinese influence in the US.

  • The thing that we wanted to accomplish is that we wanted to keep TikTok operating,

  • but we also wanted to make sure that we protected Americans' data privacy as required by law,

  • both because it's the right thing to do,

  • but also because it's a legal requirement of the law that was passed last year by Congress.

  • But there are troubling questions, how this deal was done, and who really wins out.

  • Is this a sweetheart deal that hands one of the biggest platforms in the world to Trump's political allies and cements his grip on the media landscape?

  • From The Guardian, I'm Lucy Hoff.

  • Today in Focus, can Trump fulfill his wish of making TikTok 100% MAGA?

  • Emily Baker White, you're an investigative reporter and senior writer at Forbes,