The Wall Street Journal reports authorities in Canada have order social media giant TikTok to stop its business operations in the country, citing national security concerns.
With approximately one billion users worldwide — including 135 million or more in the U.S. — TikTok is regarded as one of the most popular social media platforms on the planet.
However, its parent company ByteDance is headquartered in China, and the platform has come under fire time and again for serving kids a steady “diet of darkness” online and struggling to protect private user data from entities in China, such as the Chinese Communist Party.
In September the Wall Street Journal highlighted how TikTok let accounts linked to the Chinese government spread misleading content targeting U.S. voters ahead of the 2024 election.
Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Justice sued TikTok for allegedly violating federal laws intended to protect children online.
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