トランプ氏、ＴｉｋＴｏｋアカウント開設 在任中には禁止令

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】ドナルド・トランプ前米大統領は１日、動画投稿アプリ「ティックトック（ＴｉｋＴｏｋ）」にアカウントを開設し、動画を初投稿した。在任中はティックトックのダウンロードを禁じる大統領令を出していた。（写真は動画投稿アプリ「ティックトック〈ＴｉｋＴｏｋ〉」のロゴが表示されたスマートフォンの画面）
　トランプ氏は１１月の米大統領選での政権復帰を目指し、若年層の有権者の支持拡大を図っている。１日夜、米東部ニュージャージー州ニューアークで総合格闘技大会「ＵＦＣ」の試合を観戦した際の１３秒間の動画をティックトックに投稿。２日正午までにフォロワー数は２００万人に達した。
　トランプ氏は在任中、国家安全保障上の懸念を理由にティックトックを禁じる大統領令に署名。しかし、カリフォルニア州の連邦地裁は言論の自由への懸念を理由に、同命令を差し止める判断を下していた。
　ジョー・バイデン大統領は今年４月、ティックトックの中国の親会社バイトダンスが米国事業を１年以内に売却しなければ、全米で利用を禁止する法案に署名した。
　一方で、バイデン氏陣営も今年に入り、全米で１億７０００万人が利用しているティックトックにアカウントを開設している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/06/03-17:24）

Former US president and current White House hopeful Donald Trump has joined TikTok, posting his first video on the wildly popular social media app he once tried to ban while in office.
Reaching out to younger voters as he seeks reelection in November, Trump posted a 13-second clip Saturday night that shows him in his usual blue suit and red tie attending an Ultimate Fighting Championship bout in Newark, New Jersey.
In the video, which features raucous music, Trump is introduced by UFC CEO Dana White and leans into the camera saying, It's my honor.
Trump greets people at the UFC arena and concludes the clip by saying, That was a good walk-on, right?
As of midday Sunday, Trump already had two million followers on his account at @realDonaldTrump.
In April, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that would ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese owner Bytedance fails to find a buyer for the app within a year.
US officials have expressed concern that China's government uses TikTok to gather Americans' personal data for other nefarious purposes.
The Biden campaign this year also joined TikTok, which has more than 170 million users in the United States.
While in power, Trump tried to ban TikTok on national security grounds with an executive order, but the drive got bogged down in the courts when a federal judge questioned how the move would affect free speech and blocked the initiative.
In early May, TikTok and Bytedance filed a legal challenge against the law that would ban the app.
ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok, leaving the lawsuit, which will likely go to the US Supreme Court, as its only option to avoid a ban.