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The TikTok Election

THE MOST DIVISIVE YET POPU-lar social media platform is shaping up as one of the biggest players in this year’s presidential election.

Despite criticism of TikTok from both sides, the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees are signaling that the Chinese-owned app will be critical to reaching voters, especially young ones, ahead of November.

President Joe Biden signed a law in April that would ban TikTok outright in the U.S. if Beijing-based ByteDance does not sell it by January 2025. And ex-President Donald Trump once tried to ban it with an executive order.

Yet on June 1,

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