Why India banned TikTok — and what the US can learn from it, as pressure mounts for Biden to follow suit

Jan 7 2023 by Business Insider

 
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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TikTok's future in the US is increasingly uncertain as pressure to ban it mounts. To see what could happen if the US were to ban TikTok, analysts say to look at India. India's TikTok ban was a huge opportunity for Meta, YouTube, and Snapchat.

It hardly seems possible that TikTok could be banned in the United States. But it's getting likelier by the day.

Mark Mahaney, the respected internet analyst with Evercore ISI, told Insider that while...

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