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On March 17, 2023, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officially launched an investigation of TikTok, including allegations that the company spied on American journalists. [ 9] On January 25, 2023, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to ban the platform nationwide.
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [110] 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. [111] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [112]
Donald Trump–TikTok controversy. In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then- president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat. The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance —which initially planned on selling a small ...
On 18 May 2024, he was nominated by the CPV Central Committee to become Vietnam's 13th president, succeeding Võ Văn Thưởng, who resigned in March 2024 due to the anti-corruption campaign. [3] The National Assembly relieved Tô Lâm of his ministerial post prior to the presidential election , and his protége Lương Tam Quang was appointed ...
A new subsidiary, TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. (USDS), was created to manage user data, software code, back-end systems, and content moderation. It would report to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), not ByteDance or TikTok, even for hiring practices.
A component of Vietnam's strategy to control the Internet consists of the arrest of bloggers, netizens and journalists. [22] [23] The goal of these arrests is to prevent dissidents from pursuing their activities, and to persuade others to practice self-censorship. Vietnam is the world's second largest prison for netizens after China. [24]
August 2, 2024 at 10:22 AM. With a federal TikTok ban still up in the air months after President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that would effectively ban the platform, many Mississippi content ...
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 ...