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A group called the "Trump Make America Great Again Committee" placed several political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram warning American users that TikTok is spying on privacy and calling on them to sign a petition to ban TikTok.

The U.S. White House is considering blacklisting TikTok, effectively preventing Americans from using the popular short video app, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Faced with the threat of a U.S. ban on TikTok, its parent company ByteDance has made it clear to some investors that the plans to focus more on growth in the Chinese market, The Information cited a ByteDance investor as saying.

ByteDance, the parent company of short-video app TikTok, is looking at strategic alternatives, including a possible spin-off of Tiktok as a US company, according to the Hong Kong Economic Times, which cites sources with knowledge of the matter.

White House adviser Peter Navarro said he expects U.S. President Donald Trump to take “strong action” against Chinese social network apps TikTok and WeChat for engaging in “information warfare” against the United States.

In the second half of 2019, TikTok removed more than 16 million videos that violated its community guidelines in India, the country with the most deleted videos, says TikTok.

PUBG Mobile, Rise of Kingdoms, Knives Out are the top three Chinese vendor apps with the highest overseas revenue in June, according to App Annie.

US bank Wells Fargo has asked employees to  delete social network TikTok from their work phones due to concerns about the security.

TikTok saw more than $90.7 million in user spending, 8.3 times its revenue in June 2019, to rank as the top grossing non-game app worldwide for June 2020, Sensor Tower data showed.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says "certainly looking" at a ban on Chinese social media apps, specifically TikTok.