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Banning TikTok Won’t Solve Social Media’s Foreign Influence, Teen Harm And Data Privacy Problems

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BY SARAH FLORINI ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 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 it plans to challenge the law in court . If the law stands and the company fails to sell the app, TikTok will be blocked from any U.S. app store or web-hosting service. This would affect TikTok’s over 170 million U.S. users, including 62% of Americans ages 18 to 29 . It would also alter the news and information landscape. Unlike its competitors, TikTok has been annually increasing its proportion of users who regularly seek news on the platform. Nearly one-third of Americans under 30 use TikTok as a news source. The main arguments against TikTok under ByteDance’s ownership include that it enables foreign influe
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Arizona’s 1864 Abortion Law Was Made In A Women’s Rights Desert – Here’s What Life Was Like Then

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UN Report Says 282 Million People Faced Acute Hunger In 2023, With The Worst Famine In Gaza

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Burkina Faso’s Army Massacred Over 200 Civilians In A Village Raid, Human Rights Watch Says

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Hamas Official Says Group Would Lay Down Its Arms If An Independent Palestinian State Is Established

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Moederland: Nine Daughters Of South Africa Review – My Ancestors’ Role In The Horror Of Apartheid

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Senate Approves Nearly $61B Of Ukraine Foreign Aid − Here’s Why It Helps The US To Keep Funding Ukraine

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What You Eat Could Alter Your Unborn Children And Grandchildren’s Genes And Health Outcomes

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Pro-Palestinian Protests Sweep US College Campuses Following Mass Arrests At Columbia

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Cannabis Legalization Has Led To A Boom In Potent Forms Of The Drug That Present New Hazards For Adolescents

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