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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 .
Before Khaby Lame became the most-followed TikTok user on 22 June 2022, Charli D'Amelio was the most-followed TikTok user. D'Amelio became the most-followed TikTok user on 25 March 2020 at 41.4 million followers, surpassing the previous record-holder, Loren Gray . [ 40 ]
After Trump proposed to ban TikTok in the U.S. on July 31, 2020, security researchers expressed their concerns about the ensuing limitations on free speech. In one article, PCMag quoted Jennifer Granick of the American Civil Liberties Union who said that "banning an app that millions of Americans use to communicate with each other is a danger ...
Executive Order 13942 is an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on August 6, 2020. It directed the Secretary of Commerce to prohibit all transactions between anyone under the jurisdiction of the United States and ByteDance , the parent company of social media platform TikTok .
In 2020, after former President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively calling for the ban of TikTok and WeChat in the US, ByteDance immediately moved to update its export control rules.
In October 2020, TikTok users in Armenia reported a loss of app functionality, although it has not been confirmed whether this was the result of any intervention by the Armenian government in response to the use of the app by Azerbaijani sources to spread misinformation during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war.
In a fresh broadside against one of the world’s most popular technology companies, the Justice Department is accusing TikTok of harnessing the capability to gather bulk information on users ...
TikTok has banned Holocaust denial, but other conspiracy theories have become popular on the platform, such as Pizzagate and QAnon (two conspiracy theories popular among the U.S. alt-right) whose hashtags reached almost 80 million views and 50 million views respectively by June 2020. [210]