Recent revelations suggest that the CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has held private meetings with a number of senators to stoke fears about its rival application TikTok and its user data policy, ultimately leading to intelligence officials demanding a federal inquiry into the Chinese-owned company. 

While it's not clear how much of a role Zuckerberg might have played in the latest move by the U.S. president to ban the social media platform in the country, experts are raising questions about other factors that may be at play. 

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