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RedNote is a Chinese app that is being used by American TikTokkers
American users are using Chinese social media platform ‘RedNote’ to stay up-to-date after US banned the app over alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. A report by Sensor Tower claimed that US mobile downloads of RedNote increased over 20 times over the seven-day period beginning January 8, compared to the previous week, and are…
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TikTok faces bans on government-issued devices
US Representative Jim Oberwetter, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has neither direct nor indirect control of TikTok or ByteDance. “Under the proposal we have devised with our country’s top national security agencies through CFIUS, that kind of data sharing…would not be possible,” he added. The committee…
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The spy balloon history is long and strange
The US will vote on Thursday on a resolution “condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s use of a high-altitude surveillance balloon over United States territory as a brazen violation of US sovereignty”, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s office said. The resolution comes after two US jets shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Pacific…