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Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems

  • Written by Sarah Florini, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University
Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problemsIt's not just TikTok. Solen Feyissa/Flickr, CC BY-SA

When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that...

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