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On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [121] 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. [122] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [123]
For an answer, they might turn to India, which has been surviving without TikTok since June 2020. That month, after 20 of its soldiers were killed in a border clash with China, the Indian ...
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.
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. But the situation ...
In India, the app was banned nearly four years ago. Here's what happened: 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 dozens other Chinese apps, following a military clash along the India-China ...
Shortly after TikTok was banned in India on June 29, 2020, the YouTube Shorts beta was made available in India on September 15, 2020. [6] In March 2021, the beta was released in the U.S. and was later globally released on July 13, 2021. [7] [8]
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. [216] But adults have also seen growth on TikTok. The share of U.S. adults who regularly get news from TikTok hit 14% in 2023.
India imposed a nationwide ban on TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps like messaging app WeChat in 2020 over privacy and security concerns. The ban came shortly after a clash between Indian ...