In the US, members of the Democrat and Republican parties have backed a bill that would give the government the power to ban the app, while last week, Montana became the first state to pass legislation to stop access to TikTok on personal devices. A total of 27 states have also prohibited the use of the app on government devices. There are doubts, however, that a broad TikTok ban will be enacted across the US due to a divided congress and an expectation that any such move would be strongly challenged in the courts. The European parliament, as well as…