Rumours circulated on Monday that US AttorneyGeneral Merrick Garland would ban TikTok. He teased a press conference, after which he would reveal details. “significant national security case.”
In the past, some have criticized the popular video-sharing app as it was owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company.
Trump was the former president of the United States and threatened to ban it in 2020. Since then, the app has been banned by other countries.
The US and TikTok have been in contact to discuss changes in their data security governance and governance. ByteDance will not be required to sell them.
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It was only natural that people speculated about this. “national security”Conference had to do TikTok.
Twitter users circulated rumors that the Attorney-General would soon announce the ban. This led to others wondering why.
Garland, who appeared in front of the press at 2pm to inform them that the US government was going after two Chinese nationalists to accuse them of trying to obstruct justice as part a probe into Huawei Technologies Co.
The US charged Huawei Technologies with stealing trade secrets and bank fraud in 2020. In the year following, they added conspiracy to commit racketeering.
According to Monday’s complaint filed, the Chinese spies paid the US law enforcement officer to provide confidential information they believed was relevant to the case.
Unbeknownst to the spy, the US law enforcement agent was also working in the government’s interest.
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