Tick-tock for TikTok

American lawmakers have threatened to ban TikTok unless it’s sold. Uncle Sam has a giant stick, so will likely get what he wants

TikTok is the app that keeps its users up way past their bedtimes. Doom-scrolling through short videos is addictive. That’s how the app has gone from 85m users to 1.6bn in just six years. But politicians have started to lose sleep because of TikTok, too. They’re worried the Chinese state could use it for propaganda. To prevent this, they want to bank th…