Anti-China narrative, as provided by Diario AS.

Canada also banned TikTok from all government-owned devices earlier in the week and the app is further banned in India.Īnd these are the key narratives that have emerged for this story:

The EU ban follows similar moves in the US, where TikTok is banned from the devices of Senate employees.

TikTok has also promised Washington to hold US users’ data stateside.

In January, TikTok’s chief executive Shou Zi Chew was in Brussels trying to convince EU officials that the company was working on a “robust” system for processing European data in Europe. TikTok said the EU’s decision was based on mistaken ideas about how it operates.Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), along with their staff and accredited assistants, are also advised to remove TikTok from their devices, according to a note sent by the parliament.EU industry chief Thierry Breton, who announced the European Commission’s ban last week, declined to say whether any incidents involving TikTok had taken place before officials decided to restrict access to the app.Employees must remove the app by March 15. The new ban means that staff at the European institutions cannot use the video-sharing app - owned by Chinese firm ByteDance - on work devices, or personal devices that have official EU communication apps installed.Following suit with decisions from the European Commission and the EU Council last week, the European Parliament on Tuesday banned TikTok from staff devices, underlining mounting unease over allegations that the social media app allows the Chinese government to harvest users’ data.Here are the facts of this story, as agreed upon by Reuters, Al Arabiya English, MSN, POLITICO, and BBC News.

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