United States bans transactions with Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukTransactions with two popular Chinese-owned social media platforms will soon be banned in the United States.Both TikTok - the video-sharing social networking service - and WeChat - a multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app - will be affected.The US Commerce Department will be rolling out a ban of transactions using the two services from Sunday, September 20.The order that was put into place earlier today aims to "combat China's malicious collection of American citizens' personal data", according to US Commerce Secretary Wilbur.It has been previously stated by the US government that while using and downloading the app to communicate will not be a banned transaction, messaging on the app 'could be directly or indirectly.
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