in banning TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices.
On Monday, Canada announced it was joining the U.S. and its shooting down earlier this month. Washington and Beijing are at odds over myriad issues including trade, computer chips and other technology, national security and Taiwan, along with the discovery of a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the U.S. Some have also moved to apply the ban to any app or website owned by ByteDance Ltd., the private Chinese company that owns TikTok and moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020.Ĭhina has long blocked a long list of foreign social media platforms and messaging apps, including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. states have so-far banned TikTok from government-issued mobile devices. TikTok is used by two-thirds of American teens, but there’s concern in Washington that China could use its legal and regulatory powers to obtain private user data or to try to push misinformation or narratives favoring China.Ĭongress and more than half of U.S. The White House already did not allow TikTok on its devices. The White House is giving all federal agencies, in guidance issued Monday, 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices.
“How unsure of itself can the U.S., the world’s top superpower, be to fear a young person's favorite app to such a degree?”
government “has been overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress other countries’ companies," Mao Ning said at a daily briefing. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington’s own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Tuesday.
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