President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One Friday evening that he plans to ban TikTok.<br />The popular music and dance app is one of many owned by Chinese companies.<br />According to Gizmodo, the Trump administration believes the app is funneling user data to the Chinese government.<br />The allegation has not been substantiated.<br />Despite increasing federal scrutiny, Microsoft is in talks to buy the app, purportedly valued at $100 billion.<br />The app has already been banned in India, along with 58 other China-based apps, but not for the kind of espionage concerns President Trump is citing.<br />Rather, the ban is reportedly in retaliation to a deadly border conflict with China in the Himalayas.
