The states of Louisiana and West Virginia are the latest to ban the use of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on government devices.
TikTok, which is owned by the China-based company ByteDance, boasts of at least 100 million users alone in the United States.
Government agencies in both states banned the app on all government-owned devices on Dec. 19, due to concerns that China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could use it to track American citizens and censor content.
Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin wrote a letter to Gov. John Bel Edwards on why he had banned TikTok on all devices used by his office, citing potential security threats….