In 2022, TikTok supplied the U.S. authorities an extraordinary deal.
The social media app – owned by a Chinese firm – stated it will let federal officers decide its U.S. board of administrators, would give the authorities veto energy over every new rent and would pay an American firm that contracts with the Defense Department to observe its supply code.
The Biden administration, nonetheless, went its personal method.
Today on “Post Reports,” tech reporter Drew Harwell takes host Elahe Izadi behind the scenes of the U.S. authorities’s determination to cross on TikTok’s proposal.
Today’s present was produced by Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and blended by Sean Carter.
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