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Amazon says email to employees banning TikTok was a mistake

by AP Technology Writer
| July 11, 2020 12:03 AM

Roughly five hours after an internal email went out Friday to Amazon employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, the online retailing giant appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake.

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