• TikTok is currently the third most-downloaded free app on iOS and Google.
• 19 of the 50 US states have restricted access to TikTok on government computers.
• The US government has banned TikTok from devices under federal management.
• TikTok is attempting to reach a deal with the Council on Foreign Investment in the US to continue to own the company while putting user data, recommendation algorithms, and corporate governance into a kind of quarantine.
• An internal investigation found that ByteDance employees had used TikTok to record journalists’ physical locations using their IP addresses.
• This has undermined the goodwill the company spent the past few years cultivating and could give President Biden all the reason he needs to finish what Trump started.
Published January 3, 2023. Visit Platformer to read Casey Newton’s original post.
