China, U.S.: FCC Commissioner Requests Takedown of TikTok App

In a June 28 tweet, Brendan Carr, one of the commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, revealed he had requested on June 24 that Apple and Google remove TikTok, the short-form video platform owned by Chinese firm ByteDance Ltd., from their app stores, citing concerns about Chinese government access to the data of U.S. users, CNBC reported June 29....