Trump signed an executive order to ban TikTok over reports the Chinese Communist Party was using the app to spy on Americans. Less than six months after taking office Biden revoked the EO. Now we learn Trump was right, the company was using the app to track specific Americans.

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data/?sh=5b7b8eb06c2d

The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.
AChina-based team at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the TikTok app to monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens, according to materials reviewed by Forbes.