It's banned overnight in India along with a lot of other Chinese apps. I don't see why that can't be done in USA under national security policies. It's ridiculous to let an app from foreign adversary which can manipulate citizen behaviour through its algorithms while being able to keep track of what interests whom is allowed to operate freely. Its frankly surprising they are even having this debate. Yes meta, Google and God knows what other companies are also in a position to do this. But then the government can always drag the executives to trial legally. They can't do any of that with a foreign company.