Indiana has become the twentieth U.S. state to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from state devices amid growing concerns over threats to national security.
Graig Lubsen, a spokesman for the Indiana Office of Technology, confirmed the block, which has been in effect since Dec. 7, to The Journal Gazette.
The office “blocked TikTok from being used in our state system and on our state devices” and that the office is constantly testing the state system and making sure that the integrity is intact,” according to Lubsen.
TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, which has been linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)….