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But TikTok actually faced an even bigger exodus of users in 2020, when India banned the app. At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users .
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [130] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [131] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [132]
WHY DID INDIA BAN TIKTOK? In June 2020, TikTok users in India bid goodbye to the app, which is operated by Chinese internet firm ByteDance. New Delhi had suddenly banned the popular app, alongside ...
In June 2020, after a violent clash on the India-China border that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead, the government in New Delhi suddenly banned TikTok and several other well-known Chinese apps.
If this doesn’t happen, TikTok will be banned. It would take at least a year before a ban goes into effect, but with likely court challenges, it could stretch longer. In India, the ban in 2020 was swift. TikTok and other companies were given time to respond to questions on privacy and security, and by January 2021, it became a permanent ban.
India was TikTok’s fastest growing user base before the ban, which cut off a vital source of income for creators there. The stakes are even higher in the United States, where the app has more ...
TikTok's geographical use in 2019 has shown that 43% of new users were from India before the social platform was banned in the country. [228] But adults have also seen growth on TikTok. The share of U.S. adults who regularly get news from TikTok hit 14% in 2023.
A more specific list banned criticism of world leaders, including past and present ones from Russia, the United States, Japan, North and South Korea, India, Indonesia, and Turkey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In September 2019, The Washington Post reported allegations from former U.S. employees that TikTok censored content sensitive for Beijing as well as ...