Indiana blocks Chinese-owned app TikTok from state devices

INDIANAPOLIS: Indiana has blocked the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from state devices, its technology office said Thursday.

The Indiana Office of Technology “blocked TikTok from being used in our state system and on our state devices” as of Dec. 7, office spokesman Graig Lubsen told The Journal Gazette.

The Office of Technology “is constantly testing the state system and making sure that the integrity is intact,” Lubsen said in an email to the newspaper.