TikTok Asks Facebook for Support Against Trump’s Ban

Pappas asks social-media giant to ‘put aside’ rivalry
Zuckerberg says a TikTok ban would set a bad precedent

The "Like" logo is displayed at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Kurt Wagner

September 18, 2020 at 5:43 PM UTC

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TikTok is asking social-media competitor Facebook Inc. for support in its legal challenge against President Donald Trump’s plan to ban the Chinese-owned video app in the U.S.

Adam Mosseri, who runs Facebook’s Instagram photo-sharing app, tweeted Friday that a TikTok ban, which the Commerce Department announced earlier, “would be quite bad for Instagram, Facebook, and the internet more broadly.” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Friday that TikTok and Tencent’s WeChat will be banned from U.S. app stores starting Sunday.