National security & Tik Tok
TikTok Said to Be Under National Security Review The review comes after lawmakers raised concerns about TikTok’s growing influence in the United States. Over the past 12 months, TikTok’s app has been downloaded more than 750 million times. Credit... Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By Jack Nicas , Mike Isaac and Ana Swanson Nov. 1, 2019 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 The United States government has opened a national security review of a Chinese company’s acquisition of the American company that became TikTok, the hugely popular short-form video app, according to people briefed on the inquiry. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a federal panel that reviews foreign acquisitions of American firms on national-security grounds, is now reviewing the two-year-old deal after lawmakers raised concerns about TikTok’s growing influence in the United States, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was confidential. One of the