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White House lifts TikTok ban on government devices

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The Trump administration announced Monday that it was rescinding its ban on the social media app TikTok on government devices.A Monday memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget rescinded a 2023 White House directive that prohibited the use of TikTok on government devices, citing concerns that its then-China-based parent company, ByteDance, posed a national security risk.The White House determined that TikTok no longer posed the same national security risks after the app’s U.S. operations were shifted to a group of investors based in the United States. The concerns centered on the possibility that ByteDance could share U.S….

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