Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would ban federal employees from using TikTok, the wildly popular video app created by China’s ByteDance, over national-security concerns. One of the senators, Republican Josh Hawley, said TikTok is required by law to share user data with the Chinese government, adding that the State Department and Department of Homeland Security already ban the app...
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