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Federal. Executive Order 14034 ("EO 14034"), "Protecting Americans' Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries". In January 2020, the United States Army and Navy banned TikTok on government devices after the Defense Department labeled it a security risk. Before the policy change, army recruiters had been using the platform to attract young people.
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [112] 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. [113] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [114]
TikTok is facing restrictions worldwide and could be banned in the U.S. following a new law signed by President Joe Biden. Credit - Jakub Porzycki—Getty Images
“If TikTok does indeed die, the ban may ultimately feel meaningless for millions of online Americans: YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat have all responded to the rise of TikTok by creating their ...
TikTok doesn't seem worried. Peter Kafka. September 10, 2024 at 5:14 PM. Chelsea Jia Feng/BI. TikTok faces a January 19, 2025, deadline to find a new US owner or shut down. Despite the looming ...
Logo of TikTok. The online video platform TikTok has had worldwide a social, political, and cultural impact since its global launch in September 2017. The platform has rapidly grown its userbase since its launch and surpassed 2 billion downloads in October 2020. It became the world's most popular website, ahead of Google, for the year 2021.
The law specifies that, in the absence of a “qualified divestiture” by ByteDance, the TikTok ban will go into effect 270 days (nine months) after its enactment — which would be Jan. 19, 2025.
TikTok's content moderation policies have been criticized as non-transparent. Internal guidelines against the promotion of violence, separatism, and "demonization of countries" could be used to prohibit content related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Falun Gong, Tibet, Taiwan, Chechnya, Northern Ireland, the Cambodian genocide, the 1998 Indonesian riots, Kurdish nationalism ...