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Canada orders shutdown of TikTok offices over security risks (but won’t block app)


With all eyes on how a new Trump administration in the U.S. will interface with China Tech in the years ahead, its neighbor to the north has levelled a

With all eyes on how a new Trump administration in the U.S. will interface with China Tech in the years ahead, its neighbor to the north has levelled a blow to one of the biggest apps to come out of the country. “The decision to use a social media application or platform is a personal choice,” said François-Philippe Champagne, the country’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, in a statement. International government attention around national security and TikTok really got its start during the last Trump administration, when the President laid out a plan to ban the app in the country — where it now has 170 million users — unless its operations there were separated and sold to a U.S. entity.

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