Senegal Bans TikTok as Democracy Is Seen Facing a Turning Point
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Senegal suspended TikTok on all mobile phone operators’ networks over concerns that the social-media platform is being used to fuel violent protests.
The app has become a tool for spreading “hateful and subversive messages” by individuals “that threaten to destabilize the country,” Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Economy Minister Moussa Bocar Thiam said in a statement in the capital, Dakar, on Wednesday.