WASHINGTON: An influential American Senator on Friday asked the US social media companies as to what preparations they have made for elections in India, where social media platforms, including Meta-owned WhatsApp, have a long track record of amplifying misleading and false content. The letter, written by Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Intelligence and Rules Committees, which has …
A member of the Senate Intelligence Committee has called on Apple and Google to ban video-sharing app TikTok from their app stores, says a Bloomberg report. Democratic Senator Michael Bennet calls TikTok “an unacceptable threat to the national security of the United States”. He says that China could use its national security laws to force TikTok or its parent, ByteDance, …
