No.10 says it’s monitoring TikTok national security threat after US ban | Politics

Government announces TikTok ban

Downing Street has warned that Britain’s top security boffins are monitoring any potential national security threat from social media app TikTok, after the US passed a landmark bill that could lead to its ban in months.

This week the House of Representatives passed a new law giving the Beijing-based owners of TikTok, ByteDance, six months to sell the social media site or face it being blocked from US users’ phones.

While TikTok boss Shou Zi Chou has insisted that data on the social media platform is “free from outside manipulation”, many China hawks worry that the hit app could be used by the Chinese Communist Party for nefarious means.

Following Joe Biden saying he will sign the US anti-TikTok Bill into law, pressure is mounting on Britain to follow suit.

The Government banned the app from civil servants’ and ministers’ phones in March last year, however still allow the …