Chances for yet another right-wing takeover of a super popular social media app just went up exponentially. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images New York —

We’re approaching what appears to be an appropriately dumb ending to an inordinately dumb fight over TikTok.

Dumb is a harsh word, and I mean it deeply. The dumbest part: The Trump administration’s brokered solution to keep the app in the United States risks turning it into yet another once-great social media platform.

Here’s the latest , as of Monday:

The White House is brokering a deal for TikTok (or at least, a version of it) to be cleaved off from its Chinese parent company, Bytedance, and transferred to American ownership.

Who would own the US assets? So far, we know that Oracle, which already provides cloud storage in the US

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