Trump’s TikTok War Pits Free Speech Against National Security

After the novel coronavirus pandemic prompted stay-at-home orders across the globe, millions of people turned to social video app TikTok to cure their cabin fever.
Not everyone, though, is pleased with the app’s growing popularity — especially amid data privacy concerns connected to Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, which is currently worth upwards of $100 billion. President Donald Trump is among the detractors and on Aug. 6 issued an executive order that would bar “any t