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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) has ordered state’s Chief Information Officer Kevin Gilbertson to ban any app that provides personal data to foreign adversaries from the state network, making the move after banning TikTok across the state.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, billionaire supermarket CEO John Catsimatidis expressed concern that Gen Z’s commitment to social media platforms like TikTok is hampering their career growth, echoing a sentiment shared by several other business magnates.

A former executive at ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, says the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had “supreme access” to all data held by the Chinese tech company, including on servers in the United States.

The American Psychological Association (APA) is warning, for the first time, about social media’s potential harm to kids.

A UK journalist recently discovered that employees of China’s TikTok were tracking her personal data through an account devoted to her cat, without her knowledge or consent. Chinese employees of the company were attempting to determine who was meeting with the journalist by comparing her location to employee locations — even though the account didn’t have her name on it.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday reported on a growing number of videos posted to China’s controversial TikTok platform that teach Chinese nationals how to sneak across the U.S. border from Mexico.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) detailed on Breitbart News Daily how the bill she and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) unveiled Tuesday would crack down on big tech’s danger to children.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Thursday released a guide detailing how Americans can better safeguard their privacy, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

A U.S.-based employee of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, told an undercover Project Veritas journalist that he is sure a lot of TikTok’s coding is “very beneficial to China,” and said the Washington, D.C. team works “directly with the FBI” to “take down” people like Andrew Tate.

A 13-year-old Ohio boy has died from an overdose on the allergy medication Benadryl after attempting a deadly challenge popularized on the Chinese social media app TikTok.

A TikTok “Burn Bra Challenge” to destroy their NIKE sports bras arose after the sportswear giant hired transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.

Actress Jennifer Garner, who has three children with her ex-husband Ben Affleck — 17-year-old Violet, 13-year-old Seraphina, and 11-year-old Samuel — says her kids are not on social media and that her oldest child is “grateful” not to be on it.

An ethics watchdog is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) for potentially violating federal law and House ethics rules by abusing official resources for political purposes.

An ethics watchdog is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) for potentially violating federal law and House ethics rules by abusing official resources for political purposes with his social media accounts.

Hundreds of former officials at the CIA, FBI, and DHS were hired at Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter between 2017 and 2022, an analysis of LinkedIn data has found.

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) called on senators backing the RESTRICT, which has been described as a “Patriot Act on steroids,” to repent and withdraw their support for the controversial bill.

During an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo responded to a question on whether we should ban things to deal with China’s imbalance on social media and tech by stating that we shouldn’t “get into a witch

A professor in Southern California told his influencer marketing class in January that if one of them made a TikTok video that got a million views their finals would be canceled.

In the latest Drill Down podcast, acclaimed investigative journalist Peter Schweizer and co-host Eggers dig into the Washington D.C. special interests standing behind TikTok in the battle to ban the Chinese social giant in the U.S.

Australia said it will ban TikTok on govt devices, joining a growing list of Western nations cracking down on the Chinese-owned app.

Tell me if this story sounds familiar: there’s a national security panic. Foreign adversaries threaten the homeland. Petty bipartisan disputes are put aside, and draft legislation is rushed out. At last, Congress is doing something.

Voters are divided on whether they believe TikTok poses a national security threat, a recent survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) stated that, according to testimony in a congressional hearing held last week on the Uyghur genocide in China, witnesses testified that the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, “is routinely used

The outrage over the draconian RESTRICT Act, marketed to the public as a “TikTok ban,” is rapidly rising.

The Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act or RESTRICT Act, sold to the public as a “TikTok ban,” does far more than simply ban the Chinese-linked platform.

A TikTok data centre is using so much electricity there isn’t any spare to power the expansion of an arms manufacturing plant, they claim.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said banning the Chinese social media app TikTok would ultimately “harm [Democrats] politically in 2024.”

While speaking with the Fox News Channel on Monday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) blasted TikTok for pulling ads warning about the dangers of fentanyl and drug usage off of the app and stated that the move by TikTok to remove

On Monday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) discussed possible action by Congress on TikTok and stated that “the technology that China is implementing is enabling” their attacks on the nation’s Uyghur population and America is

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said over the weekend that she does not support a total ban on the Chinese social media app TikTok, claiming it would be “unprecedented.”

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) dismissed concerns over the social media application TikTok.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that “We’re in the middle of a cold war with China” and technology like TikTok is “the battlefield” in this cold war. Brooks said, “We’re in the middle of

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) stated that TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s testimony before Congress was “disturbing” and noted that he dodged on whether he’ll commit to abstain from selling data in the

House members on both sides of the political aisle have become increasingly wary of TikTok, and after a much-anticipated hearing with the app’s CEO on Thursday, calls for an outright ban of the app have grown.

National Geographic reveals in its most recent issue that the Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app is on the front lines promoting pagan religions such as Wicca and druidism.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that it’s naive to think China isn’t using TikTok for propaganda and data-gathering purposes given all of the evil things China already does. After his panel mentioned how TikTok