States label TikTok 'a malicious and menacing threat'
Texas on Wednesday banned the app from government devices, with governor Greg Abbott"TikTok harvests vast amounts of data from its users' devices – including when, where, and how they conduct internet activity – and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to the Chinese government," Abbott wrote.
"The TikTok app is a malicious and menacing threat unleashed on unsuspecting Indiana consumers by a Chinese company that knows full well the harms it inflicts on users," said AG Todd Rokita in a."With this pair of lawsuits, we hope to force TikTok to stop its false, deceptive and misleading practices, which violate Indiana law."
One of the lawsuits alleges TikTok lured children into a digital world of sex, drugs, profanity and other shocking content – all while claiming such material is"infrequent" and"mild." The claim that TikTok is harmful to children is not new. In March 2022 a bipartisan coalition of attorneys from eight states
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