Two More US States Issue TikTok Bans for Security Reasons

The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok office in Culver City, Calif., on Aug. 27, 2020. Mario Tama/Getty Images

The states of Louisiana and West Virginia are the latest to ban the use of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on government devices.

TikTok, which is owned by the China-based company ByteDance, boasts of at least 100 million users alone in the United States.