PARIS—The French Senate will open a commission of inquiry into Chinese social media company TikTok to look into its use and strategy of influence, according to a statement from senator Claude Malhuret’s office. The commission of inquiry will aim to shed light on whether TikTok promotes certain content in some parts of the world, excluding…
Biden Says He’s Not Sure About TikTok Ban
February 6, 2023
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President Joe Biden left it open on whether he will ban the Chinese-owned short video app TikTok that has been drawing scrutiny for national security concerns. “I’m not sure. I know I don’t have it on my phone,” Biden said on Feb. 6, in response to a reporter’s question about TikTok after returning to Washington…
Gov. Greg Abbott Announces Plan to Ban TikTok From Texas Government Devices
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Feb. 6 announced a plan to ban the use of TikTok on state-issued devices. The video-sharing app TikTok is owned and operated by ByteDance, which is a Chinese company that moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020. It has long been controversial, particularly among Republicans, for potentially enabling the Chinese…
Delete TikTok App to Protect Your Personal Data, Says UK Lawmaker
February 6, 2023
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People should delete TikTok from their smartphones to protect their personal data from “hostile” threats, a senior British Conservative lawmaker has said. There have long been concerns around TikTok over its links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), because its parent company ByteDance was founded in the country, and critics have raised fears data could…
Wave of Employee Turnover Hits China’s IT Industry
February 3, 2023
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China’s IT industry has seen a wave of resignations and layoffs since last year, affecting the Chinese communist regime’s online censorship. Former employees believe political reasons and economic factors are behind the wave of employee turnover. Liu Jiang (pseudonym), a former employee of ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok, told The Epoch Times…
House Speaker Responds to China Over Taiwan Visit
Global pushback against the Chinese Communist Party: Beijing warns U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy not to visit Taiwan. In Europe, the Czech Republic’s House speaker plans to visit Taiwan, too. Back in the United States, a bill aims to prevent American reserve oil from getting sold to China, while some lawmakers are rooting out foreign…
LIVE 6:30 PM ET: NTD Evening News (Feb. 2): House Ousts Rep. Ilhan Omar From Powerful Committee; TikTok Should Be Banned From App Stores: Dem
House Republicans on Feb. 2 voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee over past comments that critics have called anti-Semitic. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) wrote a letter to the heads of Apple and Google urging them to remove TikTok from their stores. In addition to national security concerns,…
LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (Feb. 2): House Ousts Rep. Ilhan Omar From Powerful Committee; TikTok Should Be Banned From App Stores: Dem
House Republicans on Feb. 2 voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) over past comments that critics have called antisemitic. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) wrote a letter to the heads of Apple and Google urging them to remove TikTok from their stores. In addition to national security concerns,…
NTD Evening News (Feb. 2): House Ousts Rep. Ilhan Omar From Powerful Committee; TikTok Should Be Banned From App Stores: Dem
House Republicans on Feb. 2 voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) over past comments that critics have called antisemitic. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) wrote a letter to the heads of Apple and Google urging them to remove TikTok from their stores. In addition to national security concerns,…
Apple and Google Asked to Ban TikTok From App Stores
February 2, 2023
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Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their respective app stores, arguing that no company subject to “dictates” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should be allowed such broad access to American audiences or harvest their data. Bennet made the appeal in a Feb. 1 letter to Google…
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