Skip to content
Subscriber Only
Technology

TikTok Took On President Trump and Won Big

Episode 6 of Foundering: The TikTok Story goes inside Air Force One and examines what comes next for the U.S.-China tech tussle.

TikTok As Microsoft Corp. Tries To Salvage Purchase Deal
Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
By

and

Updated on

Megaphone.fm: Season 2, Episode 6, The Showdown by ...

In the summer of 2020, President Donald Trump developed a bizarre obsession with TikTok. Amid a pandemic, historic unemployment and racial unrest subsuming the country, the daily flood of headlines turned to the Chinese-owned social media app.