The US government is banning TikTok due to national security concerns that China could access data from TikTok's 170 million U.S. users and manipulate content through ByteDance, as formalized in the 2024 PAFACA, which the Supreme Court upheld.

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This has resulted in legal and regulatory actions against TikTok, including a brief ban in January 2025 and the restructuring of U.S. operations under American control by January 2026, citing China's 2017 National Intelligence Law.

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