TikTok, which has become one of the largest social media platforms in the world in a short time, is adopted by a significant audience with the number of users exceeding 1.5 billion. However, the problem the USA has with TikTok is escalating.
US asks ByteDance to sell TikTok shares
The USA and the European Union (EU) have put a lot of pressure on TikTok for security and privacy reasons. Tight steps continue to be taken for the tension that has been going on for a long time. He had recently prepared a bill that would ban TikTok in the USA. Now, an important warning has come to ByteDance, the owner of TikTok.
According to the news in the Wall Street Journal, the USA will impose a large sanction on the ByteDance company. The Foreign Investment Committee in the US said it should sell TikTok shares to ByteDance, the platform’s parent company. It is stated that if the sale does not take place, the platform will be banned across the USA.
A TikTok ban news is also from the UK
According to many claims, TikTok leaks some important information to China. As such, it is subject to pressure from the USA and the European Union (EU) for security and privacy reasons. Although Bytedance repeatedly said that these allegations were unfounded, it was under investigation for hosting some personnel who leaked data to China. So much so that the company accepted these claims, albeit implicitly.
In the past, Canadian and US government phones have banned the platform. The European Union complied with this ban in the past weeks. The last news of joining the ban caravan came from the island. Today, the UK announced that it is banning TikTok on government phones.
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