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Tiktok Must Be "in European Hands", Says the German Minister of Culture

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The Chinese socialisation network TikTok should be placed in the EU under the control of European companies, German Minister of Culture Wolfram Weimer, calling for fears related to access by a foreign power to a variety of data...

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The Chinese socialisation network TikTok should be placed in the EU under the control of European companies, German Minister of Culture Wolfram Weimer said last month, calling for fears related to access by a foreign power to...

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The Chinese socialisation network TikTok should be placed in the EU under the control of European companies, German Minister of Culture Wolfram Weimer, calling for fears related to access by a foreign power to a variety of data...

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Minister of Culture and the Media Wolfram Weimer pleads to place the platform Tiktok of the Chinese provider Bytedance in the hands of European owners.

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TikTok could come under European control. The German Ministry of Culture argues that the European Union should pose a problem for the Chinese platform and decide whether it should...

EuroTok: Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer suggests putting the Chinese video platform TikTok "in agreement with Bytedance" into European hands. At the dpa's chief editorial conference Weimer says: "We also have to ask the property question there like the Americans." It is about the question of data sovereignty and data outflows. Europe must not allow "the most intimate data of whole generations to flow into the most private" systemat…

The platform operated by the Chinese Bytedance Group is also extremely widespread in Germany - also with negative consequences, as Minister of State for Culture Weimer finds. He makes a proposal.

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focus.de broke the news in Berlin, Germany on Monday, February 23, 2026.
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