U.S. President Donald Trump now has a verified account on TikTok competitor Triller, another sign of the White House\u2019s disfavor toward the ByteDance-owned video-sharing app.<\/p>\n
Triller is one of several TikTok alternatives that have experienced a surge of downloads since Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 6 that would prohibit certain transactions with TikTok unless ByteDance divests it within 45 days.<\/p>\n
Trump on Friday ordered ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok within 90 days.<\/p>\n
TikTok is best known for viral dance videos that capture the American teenage zeitgeist, but U.S. officials have expressed concerns that user information could be passed by the Chinese-owned app on to authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n
ByteDance is already in talks to sell the North America, Australia and New Zealand operations of TikTok to Microsoft Corp. But with the company under a cloud, once-obscure competitors are stepping up their efforts to woo TikTok\u2019s young userbase.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s Triller account had three short videos and a little more than 3,000 followers late on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Trump campaign and Triller did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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