The White House on Monday ordered government agencies to rid their devices of the Chinese-owned app TikTok within 30 days in an effort to prevent China’s communist government from spying on the US, the NY Post reports.
The directive from Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, first reported by Reuters, comes after congressional legislation passed in December banned the popular video-sharing app from federal government devices and systems, amid concerns TikTok’s parent company ByteDance could allow the Chinese Communist Party access to user data.
ByteDance denies that it would share user data with the CCP, calling the concerns “misinformation.”
