Tiktok To Exit Hong Kong Following National Security Law (report)

Patrick Frater, Variety
Mon, 07/06/2020 - 10:44pm

Massively popular video sharing app TikTok may pull out of Hong Kong within a matter of days. “In light of recent events, we’ve decided to stop operations of the TikTok app in Hong Kong,” a company spokesman told the Reuters news agency. The source said the move was made because it was not clear if […]

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