After TikTok, Montana Bans WeChat, Temu And Telegram From Government Devices

Montana has banned the popular video-sharing app TikTok statewide, becoming the first U.S. state to implement such a law. The state has also prohibited the use of five other apps on government devices and state businesses. Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte on Wednesday ordered the state's Chief Information Officer Kevin Gilbertson to ban apps that pose a "risk of foreign adversaries obtaining Montanans' personal, private, sensitive information and data" from government-issued devices. Apart from TikTok, video-editing tool CapCut, video/photo-sharing social media app Lemon8, both owned by ByteDance, Chinese shopping platform Temu,...