White House: TikTok is a "potential national security risk

The Biden Administration says TikTok poses potential national security for the US. Official representative Karin Jean-Pierr said this during the briefing.

The White House gives a 30-day deadline for TikTok to be removed from government-issued devices. The US authorities fear TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance could give access to user data to the Chinese Government,

Earlier, The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday along party lines to give Biden the power to ban TikTok and any other software owned by ByteDance Ltd.