{"id":265240,"date":"2022-12-14T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=265240"},"modified":"2022-12-14T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:19:17","slug":"burgum-bans-social-media-app-tiktok-from-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=265240","title":{"rendered":"Burgum Bans Social Media App TikTok From  Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has banned the popular social media app TikTok from devices owned by the state government\u2019s executive branch, joining several other Republican governors who have done so citing the platform\u2019s Chinese ownership and growing national security worries. Burgum announced the executive order late Tuesday. In addition to prohibiting downloads of TikTok on government-issued equipment or while connected to the state\u2019s network, it bars visiting the TikTok website. North Dakota is the latest state to allege cybersecurity risks presented by the platform, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. The Republican governors of South Dakota, Maryland, South Carolina and Nebraska have also taken such steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has banned the popular social media app TikTok from devices owned by the state government\u2019s executive branch, joining several other Republican governors who have done so citing the platform\u2019s Chinese ownership and growing national security worries. Burgum announced the executive order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265241,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265240\/revisions\/265241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}