Aug 6, 2020,09:51pm EDT
Jack Brewster Forbes Staff Business I’m a news reporter for Forbes.
Updated Aug 6, 2020, 10:33pm EDT
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that will prohibit Americans from doing business with ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, and a similar order that bans transactions involving WeChat, a social messaging app, with its owner, Tencent, beginning September 20, in an effort to bar the China-owned social media platforms from the U.S. due to national security concerns.
