The new order is expected to expand restrictions to other emerging platforms, such as Lemon8 and Rednote, which are owned by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, and other Chinese developers.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has banned social media and AI apps affiliated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on government-issued devices. “Texas will ...

The proclamation orders the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Department of Information Resources to add six technologies — DeepSeek, Lemon8, Moomoo, RedNote, Tiger Brokers and Webull ...