A Democratic candidate for governor of California will be giving TikTok a go, but with a caveat: He'll only post videos in Spanish.

At least for now.

Former Biden administration Health Secretary Xavier Becerra is embracing the popular short-video app to target Spanish-language users. His campaign and surveys note that Hispanic adults use TikTok in much higher numbers than Black and white adults.

Congress last year passed a ban on TikTok, calling it a potential national security threat, but President Joe Biden, who signed the bill into law and was Becerra's boss at the time, announced before leaving office that he wouldn't enforce it. After the Supreme Court ruled the ban constitutional, President Donald Trump suspended it on his first day in office to give the China-based company ByteDa

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