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Open Markets in recent years has repeatedly urged the U.S. government to do a better job of understanding how the Chinese state uses Chinese and foreign corporations to spread its influence and power abroad. As senators from both parties have made clear, the Chinese-owned video app TikTok poses a variety of potential threats to the security of the United States and of

Video streaming service TikTok being banned in some countries shows why depending upon a social network for your online presence may not be wise.

As the U.S. government looks to ban popular video app TikTok, owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, the company is mulling a survival plan.

Jack Dorsey eats five meals a week. He ends his evenings alternating between ice baths and 220-degree barrel saunas. He works almost solely from his iPhone, and unlike his counterpart at Facebook, he

Concerns about the Chinese government shouldn’t be dismissed, experts say. But banning TikTok would be a drastic measure.

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President Trump initially planned to ban the social media app TikTok, a video-making platform popular with Generation Z, from being accessible in the United States due to its affiliation with the Chinese government and invasive data collection policies. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States,” he said bluntly.

TikTok has blocked hashtags relating to QAnon conspiracy theory, but videos about it remain on the site.

TikTok halts talks on London HQ amid UK-China tensions | TikTok | The Guardian

Fears over TikTok’s Chinese ownership is setting up a battle between the Trump administration and Amazon on one hand, and the social media site’s users on the other. On Friday, Amazon sent an …