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Texas on Wednesday joined Maryland, South Dakota and South Carolina in moving to ban state employees from using China-owned social media app TikTok on government-issued devices.

  • “TikTok harvests vast amounts of data from its users’ devices … and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to the Chinese government,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a letter announcing the ban.