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How A TikTok Ban Would Deal A Blow To Creators, Businesses And The American Economy
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How A TikTok Ban Would Deal A Blow To Creators, Businesses And The ...
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Rep. Jeff Jackson’s use of TikTok ‘beyond reckless,’ says NC Sen. Thom Tillis: Sen. Thom Tillis takes on Rep. Jeff Jackson’s use of TikTok. The Charlotte ...
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How A TikTok Ban Would Deal A Blow To Creators, Businesses And The American Economy
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How A TikTok Ban Would Deal A Blow To Creators, Businesses And The ...
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Rep. Jeff Jackson’s use of TikTok ‘beyond reckless,’ says NC Sen. Thom Tillis: Sen. Thom Tillis takes on Rep. Jeff Jackson’s use of TikTok. The Charlotte ...
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The Surprising Consequences of Every Other App Copying TikTok: What happens when all the social networks look the same.
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The Surprising Consequences of Every Other App Copying TikTok
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Media: Does TikTok have a future in the U.S.?: The popular app has been the subject of intense scrutiny
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Media: Does TikTok have a future in the U.S.?
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Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Us Safe: Julia Angwin Critiques Bipartisan Attack on Chinese Firm
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Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Us Safe: Julia Angwin Critiques Bipartisan ...
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Congress Is Trying To Ban TikTok. Younger Americans Don’t Like That.: Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. The latest trend taking Congress by ...
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Congress Is Trying To Ban TikTok. Younger Americans Don’t Like That.
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What Just About Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Banning TikTok: Why you would ban it. How you would ban it. And if we really, truly want to ban it.
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What Just About Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Banning TikTok
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TikTok is facing a ban in US. But America still addicted to these Chinese apps: TikTok is facing intense scrutiny in the US, with voices growing louder for a ban ...
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TikTok is facing a ban in US. But America still addicted to these Chinese ...
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TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos “achieve a certain number of video views ... Show more

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No evidence of TikTok national security threat but reason for concern, experts say
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No evidence of TikTok national security threat but reason for concern ...
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How a little-known agency holds power over TikTok’s future: Under pressure from the U.S. government, TikTok is now facing the music with the possibility of a ...
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How a little-known agency holds power over TikTok’s future
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The Strange Alliance Forming to Protect TikTok: From Fox News host Tucker Carlson to progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an unlikely alliance has formed ...
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The Strange Alliance Forming to Protect TikTok
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How ByteDance Is Expanding Its Reach Beyond TikTok With CapCut—One of the Most Popular Apps in America
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How ByteDance Is Expanding Its Reach Beyond TikTok With CapCut—One of the ...
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Why a ban on TikTok won’t solve all data privacy concerns: “TikTok, like most U.S. tech companies, collects a huge amount of data about us both while users are ...
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Why a ban on TikTok won’t solve all data privacy concerns
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TikTok attorney: China can’t get U.S. data under plan: Under intense scrutiny from Washington that could lead to a potential ban, the top attorney for TikTok and ...
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TikTok attorney: China can’t get U.S. data under plan
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How a little-known agency holds power over TikTok's future: Under pressure from the U.S. government, TikTok is now facing the music with the possibility of a ...
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How a little-known agency holds power over TikTok's future
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How TikTok and its parent company spent over $13 million on struggling lobbying campaign
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How TikTok and its parent company spent over $13 million on struggling ...
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TikTok: why the app with 1bn users faces a fight for its existence: Chinese-owned firm caught in geopolitical standoff, with US lawmakers leading charge against ...
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TikTok: why the app with 1bn users faces a fight for its existence
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TikTok makes its gaming case: TikTok's angling the popular app as an essential part of the video game industry’s future.
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TikTok makes its gaming case
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Senate battle to ban TikTok pits GOP against itself in 1st Amendment flap: A growing number of U.S. lawmakers from both parties have expressed concern over ...
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Senate battle to ban TikTok pits GOP against itself in 1st Amendment flap
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Should TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi’s Singaporean nationality matter?: Reactions from S'pore netizens to the Congressional hearing over TikTok appeared sharp and ...
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Should TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi’s Singaporean nationality matter?
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TikTok ban: Here's how 'golden shares' in ByteDance give Beijing influence: In 2021, China's government bought a 1% stake in the main domestic unit of TikTok ...
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TikTok ban: Here's how 'golden shares' in ByteDance give Beijing influence
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TikTok attorney: China can’t get U.S. data under plan: Under intense scrutiny from Washington that could lead to a potential ban, the top attorney for TikTok and ...
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TikTok attorney: China can’t get U.S. data under plan
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The campaign to save TikTok has been years in the making : TikTok began working to win over the U.S. and European governments long before the latest concerns ...
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 The campaign to save TikTok has been years in the making
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TikTok attorney: China can't get U.S. data under plan: Under intense scrutiny from Washington that could lead to a potential ban, the top attorney for TikTok and ...
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TikTok attorney: China can't get U.S. data under plan
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TikTok ban pushed by Missouri's Hawley blocked in Senate: Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley tried to force a Senate vote Wednesday on legislation that would ban TikTok ...
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TikTok ban pushed by Missouri's Hawley blocked in Senate
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TikTok represents 'strategic' challenge, says top US cyber official: RUTHERFORD, California: The head of the US National Security Agency's ...
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TikTok represents 'strategic' challenge, says top US cyber ...
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After CEO gets grilled, a doomsday clock might be ticking for TikTok | Opinion: Lawmakers concerned that the Chinese government could find portals into federal ...
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After CEO gets grilled, a doomsday clock might be ticking for TikTok | ...
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Of Course TikTok Can Be Bad for Us! But Congress Is Missing Something.: I teach tech policy on TikTok. My followers know something Congress doesn't.
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Of Course TikTok Can Be Bad for Us! But Congress Is Missing Something.
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Rand Paul blocks Josh Hawley’s bid to ban TikTok in GOP split : Paul blocked Hawley's effort to begin work on a measure that would prompt a nationwide ban on the ...
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Rand Paul blocks Josh Hawley’s bid to ban TikTok in GOP split
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TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew: The great unknown: The TikTok app records more than three billion downloads - now it could be banned. Your boss, Shou Zi Chew ...
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TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew: The great unknown
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US moves forward plan to ban TikTok as AOC joins protests supporting app: Lawmakers, unconvinced after five hours of testimony from company chief Shou Zi Chew ...
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US moves forward plan to ban TikTok as AOC joins protests supporting app
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Congress doesn’t have the guts to ban TikTok: Everybody in Washington wants to talk tough about TikTok--but few are willing to be responsible for shutting it ...
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Congress doesn’t have the guts to ban TikTok
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Commentary: How well did TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi hold out against US Congress grilling?
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Commentary: How well did TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi hold out against US ...
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TikTok users are making fun of Congress members for their questions to app CEO Shou Chew
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TikTok users are making fun of Congress members for their questions to app ...
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Where TikTok users may go if the app gets banned: On the eve of a high-profile TikTok hearing this week, the company shared that it now has more than 150 million ...
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Where TikTok users may go if the app gets banned
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'I Don't Like Censorship': Omar Slams Proposed TikTok Ban as Hawley Aims to Fast-Track Passage
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'I Don't Like Censorship': Omar Slams Proposed TikTok Ban as ...
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How a little-known agency holds power over TikTok’s future: TikTok's owner deflected questions about the Chinese Communist Party’s influence.
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How a little-known agency holds power over TikTok’s future
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US House speaker says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok Bill: WASHINGTON: US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday (Mar 26) ...
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US House speaker says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok Bill
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China condemns McCarthy's decision to move forward with TikTok bill to deter 'technological tentacles' of CCP
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China condemns McCarthy's decision to move forward with TikTok bill to ...
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TikTok is harmful, but not just because of China – banning it won’t solve anything
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TikTok is harmful, but not just because of China – banning it won’t solve ...
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There's a 90% chance TikTok will be banned in US without IPO or buyout: Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note on Monday it's "a matter of when ...
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There's a 90% chance TikTok will be banned in US without IPO or buyout
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Analysis: Can the U.S. government ban TikTok?: If the federal government comes to the conclusion that TikTok should be banned, is it even possible to ban it for ...
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Analysis: Can the U.S. government ban TikTok?
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TikTok is owned by a Chinese company. So why doesn’t it exist there?: TikTok is fighting to stay alive in the United States as pressure builds in Washington to ...
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TikTok is owned by a Chinese company. So why doesn’t it exist there?
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Congress grilled TikTok’s CEO. TikTok’s users hit back: TikTok’s chief executive testified before US Congress last week as the push to ban the platform ...
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Congress grilled TikTok’s CEO. TikTok’s users hit back
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Singapore’s Gen Z gives TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi ‘zaddy’ status for his savvy handling of US Congress
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Singapore’s Gen Z gives TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi ‘zaddy’ status for his ...
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Why TikTok is still storing user data outside the US: experts: As TikTok's US future remains uncertain, its Project Texas push is far from complete ...
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Why TikTok is still storing user data outside the US: experts
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Republican Senator Rand Paul blocks bid to ban Chinese-owned TikTok: U.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday blocked a bid to fast-track a ban of popular ...
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Republican Senator Rand Paul blocks bid to ban Chinese-owned TikTok
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Republican Rand Paul blocks TikTok ban, asks if US is going to be just like China and block free speech
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Republican Rand Paul blocks TikTok ban, asks if US is going to be just ...
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US Sen. Rand Paul blocks bid to ban Chinese-owned TikTok: A small but growing number of lawmakers have raised concerns, citing free speech and other issues.
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US Sen. Rand Paul blocks bid to ban Chinese-owned TikTok
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Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains: TikTok continues to face pressure in the US, and other countries in the West ...
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Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains
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Disconnect widens between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban: Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle face an uphill battle trying to convince the public ...
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Disconnect widens between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban
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TikTok CEO faces off with Congress over security fears: The CEO of TikTok made a rare public appearance before a U.S. Congressional committee ...
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TikTok CEO faces off with Congress over security fears
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White House ‘very in favor’ of bill thought to target TikTok: Platform has drawn close congressional scrutiny because the data of users could be available to the ...
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White House ‘very in favor’ of bill thought to target TikTok
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Gap grows between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban: NEW YORK: On the one side are dozens of lawmakers on Capitol Hill issuing dire warnings about ...
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Gap grows between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban
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Leaked document: TikTok 'Myth vs. Fact' sheet sent to advertisers: "TikTok does not permit any government to influence or change its recommendation model ...
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Leaked document: TikTok 'Myth vs. Fact' sheet sent to advertisers
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House to consider TikTok legislation after CEO's testimony, Speaker McCarthy says
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House to consider TikTok legislation after CEO's testimony ...
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Republican US Senator Rand Paul blocks bid to ban China-owned TikTok: US Republican Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday blocked a bid to fast-track a ban of popular ...
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Republican US Senator Rand Paul blocks bid to ban China-owned TikTok
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Laura Slattery: TikTok exists in two parallel worlds and only one is worried about China
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Laura Slattery: TikTok exists in two parallel worlds and only one is ...
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Hollywood, music industry brace for a TikTok ban: Since the last time the U.S. government considered banning TikTok in 2020, the app has evolved from a social ...
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Hollywood, music industry brace for a TikTok ban
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What the fight over TikTok really means: The tussle over the viral app shows just how entwined American and Chinese business has become
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What the fight over TikTok really means
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Gap grows between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said the platform has never turned over user data to the Chinese government ...
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Gap grows between TikTok users, lawmakers on potential ban
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Despite growing support in Congress for a TikTok ban, Hawley fails to force his bill forward
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Despite growing support in Congress for a TikTok ban, Hawley fails to ...
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Republican Senator Rand Paul blocks bid to ban Chinese-owned TikTok: US Republican Senator Rand Paul on Wednesday blocked a bid to fast track a ban of popular ...
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Republican Senator Rand Paul blocks bid to ban Chinese-owned TikTok
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US lawmakers to go ahead with the proposal banning TikTok use nationwide: US lawmakers to go ahead with the proposal banning TikTok use nationwide
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US lawmakers to go ahead with the proposal banning TikTok use nationwide
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Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks the app poses and the challenges to blocking it.
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Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the ...