"At the President's direction, we have taken significant action to combat China's malicious collection of American citizens' personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. laws and regulations." The first part of the action, starting September 20, has to do with halting all new app distribution for both WeChat (owned by Tencent) and TikTok (owned by ByteDance). In other words, no new downloads of either app as of September 20, and no new updates.