Amazon’s last-minute bid for TikTok comes as a US ban on the platform is set to take effect Saturday

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Amazon’s last-minute bid for TikTok comes as a US ban on the platform is set to take effect Saturday

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WASHINGTON — Amazon has put in a bid to purchase TikTok, a Trump administration official said Wednesday, in an eleventh-hour pitch as a U.S. ban on the platform is set to go into effect Saturday.
The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of…

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