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Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton hold a 2017 sheet of $1 dollar notes bearing Mnuchin’s name for a photograph at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, DC, in 2017. | Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is among those lining up to buy TikTok if Congress enacts a law that forces its Chinese owner to sell.

People gather for a press conference about a TikTok ban in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

TikTok’s future in the US has perhaps never been in more doubt than it is right now. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, the short-form video app has been fighting increased scrutiny from US lawmakers about its ties to ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it.

Supporters of the TikTok app demonstrate outside of the US Capitol before the House of Representatives votes to pass the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” that could ban TikTok in the US, on March 13. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

The app skews younger, its users appear more politically polarized, and its user base is changing.

And how does it even work?

There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97 percent of adults over the age of 60 are either collecting or will start collecting Social Security. As of February 2023, about one in every five residents in the US collected benefits from these funds. For such a widely used program, it’s a bit surprising that people in the US know so little about how it works.

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