TikTok ban

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Supreme Court unanimously upholds TikTok divest or ban law
ByMelody Armstrong January 17, 2025

Jan. 17 (UPI) — The Supreme Court on Friday voted unanimously to leave in place a law that would ban TikTok from U.S. app stores unless it s Chinese parent company divests from the platform and sells it to an American firm by Sunday. With the law going into effect on Biden’s last full day…

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‘Our security must always come first’: UK latest country to ban TikTok from government devices
ByMichael Armstrong March 16, 2023March 16, 2023

Chinese-owned social media app TikTok has been banned from government devices in the United Kingdom, it was announced on Thursday. The ban is effective immediately and includes phones used by government ministers and civil servants, according to a statement given to the UK’s House of Commons by Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State in the…

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