Trump, in reversal, opposes TikTok ban, calls Facebook 'enemy of the people'

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Trump, in reversal, opposes TikTok ban, calls Facebook 'enemy of the people'
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In 2020, Trump signed an executive order banning U.S. companies from transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok.

He may have led the initial charge to ban TikTok while in office, but former President Donald Trump, in a reversal, is now warning against banning the app, saying it would only empower Facebook, which he called the 'enemy of the people.

Rep Raja Krishnamoorthy told CBS News that most of the alerts had gone to children, who were 'flooding our offices with phone calls.'Trump has long harbored grievances against Facebook, now known as Meta.

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