Biden reverses Trump’s U.S. “death penalty” on TikTok and WeChat while investigations still linger

The action taken by the president today does not put an end to an investigation of TikTok’s Chinese based owner ByteDance by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Meanwhile, the Biden administration said that the original Executive Order signed by Trump was not carried out “in the soundest fashion,” and that the new rules will examine privacy and security risks of apps located in certain countries (like China) by providing certain criteria that must be followed by apps from those countries that are available in the states. This prevents the U.S. from attempting to ban apps from specific regions without a legitimate reason for doing so.