TikTok has stepped up its defense against US accusations that the popular video app is a national security threat, denouncing what it called "rumors and misinformation" about its links to the Chinese government.
The video-snippet sharing service launched an online information hub on Monday after President Donald Trump gave its Chinese parent firm a 90-day deadline to divest TikTok before the app is banned in the United States.
A previous executive order, prohibiting US entities from doing business with TikTok, will take effect 45 days after August 6.
On a web page titled "The Last Sunny Corner of the Internet," TikTok maintained it was setting the record straight about the platform.
"TikTok has never provided any US user data to the Chinese government, nor would it do so if asked," the company said in the post.
"Any insinuation to the contrary is unfounded and blatantly false."
US user data is stored here, with a backup in Singapore, according to TikTok.
The company, owned by China-based ByteDance, also launched a new @tiktok_comms Twitter account to address issues in real time.
As tensions soar between the world's two biggest economies, Trump has claimed TikTok could be used by China to track the locations of federal employees, build dossiers on people for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage.
The US leader early this month also ordered a ban on the messaging app WeChat, which is used extensively in China.
On Friday, Trump signed a separate executive order for ByteDance to sell its interest in Musical.ly, the app it bought and merged with TikTok ..
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