New Jersey is the latest state to ban the use of TikTok on all state-owned or managed devices, along with 14 other social media apps.
Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy issued a directive on Monday to remove high-risk software on state government devices.
TikTok, a popular video-based social media platform, is gradually being banned by both state and federal authorities for its link to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Several states have already implemented bans on TikTok and Congress has been considering a bipartisan proposal to prevent ByteDance, the social media app’s parent company, from conducting business transactions anywhere in the United States….