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> Another issue is that TikTok relies on advertising for revenue and if US companies are banned from doing business with TikTok, they would need to run the app at a loss in the US at least. They could use their revenues from the rest of the world and the Chinese government to survive in the US.

Wouldn't work. US is 10% of user base but half of TikTok's revenue. The company is unprofitable so it needs all the revenue and revenue growth it can get.

>Not clear how that would affect TikTok sponsored influencers.

The vast majority of the top TikTok accounts, from Charli D'Amelio on down, are American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_TikTok_a...

Trump knows this, which is why ultimately ByteDance (and China) had no choice but to acquiesce in order to stay in the US.