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TikTok ban won't solve foreign influence, data privacy problems

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When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to challenge the law […] The post TikTok ban won’t solve foreign influence, data privacy problems appeared first on Asia Times.

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Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems

It's not just TikTok. Solen Feyissa/Flickr, CC BY-SAWhen President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to challenge the law in court. If the law stands and the company fails to sell the app, TikTok w…

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