Like the Trojan horse in Greek mythology, they warn, Beijing could use the app to gain access to sensitive user data and spread misleading information. Their fear is that China's government could hijack TikTok to push its interests. While the European Union is about to implement legislation that will force TikTok to aggressively police harmful content, countries from the US to Japan are mulling how to regulate the app - or even follow India's example and outright ban it.
Lawmakers worldwide are debating how to restrict, if not outlaw, the use of the Chinese video-streaming service, which has become one of the most popular apps among teenagers around the world. Whether the ban on TikTok for government employees in US for security concern will also effect the common consensus about the popular social media app will be one to see.TikTok is in the crosshairs of many authorities and monitoring bodies. In the US over two-thirds of all teenagers use the app, according to a 2022 study by the Pew Research Center think tank.Īccording to a report by DW News, health care experts have warned that TikTok's design promotes addictive behavior, thereby hooking more and more users to the app.Īnd then there's the question of what impact the use of the app could have on the mental health of its predominantly young users. consumers spent approximately $6.6 million, or 4 percent of the roughly $181 million generated by apps in that category. On Google Play, where TikTok is categorized as a Social app, U.S. App Store, or a little more than 4 percent of the $850 million consumers spent on Entertainment apps on that platform. The threat of ban in 2020, had in turn saw a sizeable increase in the number of users who downloaded the app int he the Donald Trump governed country.Īccording to Sensor Tower, TikTok generated nearly $35 million in user spending from the U.S. More and more users in US have now turned to TikTok for news and other search related queries.
The constant indecision of the US government over a social media app in the country is also reflective of the paranoia that has been induced earlier by the Chinese Spy Balloon amid a war situation in Russia and China that has divided the world into two sparring factions- East and the West.
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