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The US government is halting some of its advertising campaigns on TikTok as part of further ban reviews.
According to the reportLast week, an interim arrangement was enacted by the Department of Defense, NASA, and the General Services Administration. This new rule would ban contracts that require the use of TikTok. The rule says this extends to situations “where social media advertising services could be part of the procurement.”
There is no indication of when the transitional arrangement will be lifted, but it is an effective pause in government spending on the platform. It’s also just one of the many steps the US government has taken to isolate itself from TikTok, a Beijing-owned social media platform that has come under close scrutiny for its highly controversial data-gathering efforts and has admitted US Spying on citizens for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). . The US Navy was the first branch of the military to ban TikTok on state-owned devices, and the army soon followed suit.
Montana was the first state in the United States to ban the app for its citizens. The ban would also fine Google and Apple $10,000 a day for each day TikTok is accessible to Montanans when the law goes into effect in 2024. In response to that lawsuit, TikTok sued the state for violating First Amendment grounds. The ban for Montana is primarily symbolic. Anyone who wants to download TikTok onto their device within Montana can use a VPN and set it up to anywhere within the United States to bypass the ban.
It looks like the Biden administration is preparing to take a tough stance on TikTok. FBI Director Christopher Wray has repeatedly warned about the app’s data-gathering techniques and the possibility that the algorithm could be influenced by the CCP. Have you ever watched some TikTok videos and wondered why such colorful language is used? It’s closed Avoid censorship on the platform for talking about suicide (unlive on TikTok) or LGBT issues (Leg Booty on TikTok).