Twitter has engaged in preliminary talks with TikTok over a potential deal, the Wall Street Journal said Saturday, citing people familiar with the deal. TikTok has been discussing a deal with Microsoft after the Trump administration threatened to ban the popular video app, a unit of China’s ByteDance, citing concerns the Chinese government would be able to access the private information of...
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