US President Donald Trump has downplayed the threat of the social media app TikTok being used by the Chinese government to spy on users
He says the app will "stay around" and that other products made in China could just as easily be used for spying.
In a free-flowing interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity, TikTok, which recently went dark in the US after the Supreme Court upheld a decision that it should be banned, Trump then signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law banning the app if it is not sold.
Trump tells Hannity that: "I think TikTok's going to stay around".
When asked about fears that the app is being used by the Chinese government to spy on US citizens, Trump says "you can say that about everything made in China", and that "we have our telephones made in China".
Trump says TikTok users are mainly young people, and asks is it "that important to be spying on young people, on young kids watching crazy videos?" Hannity replies that he doesn't want China spying on anybody.
Trump replies, "but they make your telephones, they make your computers... isn't that a bigger threat?"
