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<\/p>\nAlmost three years ago, New York City joined governments across the country in banning TikTok from its phones over security concerns about the Chinese social media site.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a bona fide social media star, took to the app to announce a reversal: \u201cTikTok, we\u2019re back.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city will now allow agencies to start posting again on the short-form social media site as long as departments follow a set of security precautions, according to a memo from city cybersecurity officials provided by the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
The prohibition was established by Eric Adams, Mamdani\u2019s predecessor, in 2023, as the federal government and many US states restricted the app from government-owned devices over concerns that its parent company, ByteDance, could share data with the Chinese government.<\/p>\n
TikTok had waved off the governments\u2019 worries as unfounded. Since then it has reached an agreement to spin off its US operation in a move to alleviate those concerns and avoid a wider ban in the country.<\/p>\n
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Democratic Socialist Mamdani elected New York City mayor<\/p>\n
Democratic Socialist Mamdani elected New York City mayor<\/p>\n
In a memo on Tuesday, NYC Cyber Command, which is in charge of safeguarding city systems against cyber threats, wrote that the change was about broadening the city\u2019s communications reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost three years ago, New York City joined governments across the country in banning TikTok from its phones…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":696131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,24446,15323,5289,2142,19713,405,403,1520,5226,5225,5228,5227,291314,124447,345,2397,67,586,132,5230,68,291315,2969,232,5301],"class_list":["post-696130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-bytedance","tag-chinese-government","tag-eric-adams","tag-federal-government","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-cyber-command","tag-security-concerns","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-states","tag-usa","tag-wnba","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116326874934041121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}