Time may be running out for TikTok as Pompeo joins chorus of warnings from Florida officials

Published July 10, 2020 7:00pm ET



Florida’s U.S. senators have maintained for months the proliferation of Chinese social media apps is a national security threat.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has responded to those claims several times this week, announcing the Trump administration is “certainly looking at” banning several of the apps, including the popular video app TikTok, which has been alleged to be used by the Communist Party of China for data mining.

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