The government should consider a total ban of TikTok altogether to address national security concerns posed by the app, a senior US government official has told Australian senators. Brendan Carr, the US Federal Communications Commissioner, told a federal parliamentary inquiry examining foreign interference of social media apps in Canberra on Thursday that unless TikTok was willing to undergo genuine divestiture, countries like Australia and the US needed to consider total bans. The federal government banned TikTok on all government devices earlier this month, following the lead of US and other western allies. The conversation in the US – spearheaded by…