https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok/bytedance-says-goal-of-u-s-was-to-ban-tiktok-app-rather-than-force-a-sale-internal-letter-idUSKCN250140

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees in an internal letter on Tuesday that the United States goal was not to force a sale of TikTok U.S. operations but rather to ban the app, and that some people had misconceptions about the situation.