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Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems

  • Written by Sarah Florini, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University
imageIt's not just TikTok. Solen Feyissa/Flickr, CC BY-SA

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...

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