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Joe Biden Invites Chinese Owned TikTok to Partner with Federal Voting Assistance Program Ahead of Midterms

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Joe Biden welcomes partnership between Chinese App TikTok, which harvests personal data, and the Federal Voting Assistance Program TikTok, the popular social media app, is owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance, founded in 2012, and has been the focus of security concerns since the days of President Trump. The app also harvests vast amounts of personal and sensitive data from American users, leading to the Federal Communications Commission director requesting that Apple and Google remove it from their app store. For these reasons, President Trump also attempted to ban TikTok, issuing three executive orders blocking American businesses from working with TikTok…

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