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Canada’s Trudeau says TikTok ban had ‘side benefit’ of getting his kids off platform

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday that he was happy his recent ban on the use of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from government-issued devices meant his children could no longer access the platform. Speaking at a joint news conference with U.S. President Joe Biden in Ottawa, Trudeau said: “Our concerns around TikTok are around security and access to information that the Chinese government could have to government phones. It’s just a personal side benefit that my kids can’t use TikTok anymore.” Trudeau, 51, has three children, two of whom are teenagers. His government announced its ban last month,…

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