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Applicata non grata: TikTok banned from official devices in several countries

By France24
06 March 2023   |   10:57 am
The Chinese-owned video-based app TikTok faces bans from several Western governments, who say the platform poses a national security risk. FRANCE 24's Technology Editor Peter O'Brien tells us what this could mean for the future of TikTok, which has more than one billion users worldwide.

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