Nearly 60 Percent of Americans Want TikTok Removed From App Stores: Poll

The TikTok logo is pictured outside the company's U.S. head office in Culver City, Calif. on Sept. 15, 2020. Mike Blake/Reuters

Almost 60 percent of Americans believe that the Chinese-owned short video app TikTok should be removed from app stores after revelations that U.S. user data have been repeatedly accessed in China, according to a new poll.

In a survey conducted by the Convention of States Action and Trafalgar Group, 58.6 percent of respondents said they supported “efforts to remove TikTok from app stores now that the company has revealed Americans’ user data can be accessed by TikTok employees in China.”