TikTok has come under increasing scrutiny due to fears that user data from the app owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance could end up in the hands of the Chinese Government, undermining Western security interests.
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Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the commendation Wednesday in Abuja at the 12th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari Scorecard Media Briefing Series, calling on other owners of social media platforms to emulate the gesture.
The Trump administration’s pressuring of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company in China, to sell its US operations to Microsoft or risk closure amounts to a “smash and grab,” the state-run China Daily newspaper wrote in an editorial.