South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed on Nov. 29 an executive order banning access to the video platform TikTok on state employee devices, citing its ties to Beijing.
The governor’s office said the China-owned social media giant, which harvested private data “on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP],” posed a growing national security threat against American users.
“South Dakota will have no part in the intelligence gathering operations of nations who hate us,” said Noem. “The Chinese Communist Party uses information that it gathers on TikTok to manipulate the American people, and they gather data off the devices that access the platform.”…