TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister says

Darren Jones defends decision to allow app to continue running in UK as it stops working in US ahead of national ban

TikTok users posting videos of cats or dancing do not pose a security threat to the UK, a cabinet minister has said, as he defended the government’s decision not to ban the Chinese-owned video platform.

The government has allowed the app to continue running in Britain, as it stopped working in the US before a federal ban comes into force.

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