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U.S. Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features
US government regulators reportedly tried to come to an agreement with TikTok to prevent banning the app that would have granted the federal government vast powers over the app. That’s according to a draft of a deal between TikTok and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) obtained by Forbes, a contract…
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Leaked TikTok Doc Reveals Its Obvious Secret to an Addictive Feed
Among the ongoing cavalcade of lawmakers and laypeople concerned about whether social media algorithms might be rotting their user’s brains, TikTok’s faced a fair amount of scrutiny, and for good reason. Despite the app’s ballooning usage across the globe — with ballooning revenue figures to match — there’s still a hell of a lot that…
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Biden Order Declares TikTok Not Quite a Threat to U.S. National Security, Yet
The U.S. Biden administration passed an executive order on Wednesday that seeks to create a “criteria-based” framework for establishing whether foreign-owned apps present national security risks or not. In so doing, the regulation overturned three executive orders previously signed by former U.S. President Trump that took a decidedly more aggressive approach to the issue.
