Arkansas Joins States Banning TikTok From Government Devices

Tiktok Inc. was banned from government devices and state networks by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R), adding to a growing pool of states that have prohibited the app over security concerns.

Sanders’ Tuesday executive order, one of her first as governor, bars the use of any state-issued technology to download or access the popular social media app.

More than two dozen states have taken action to remove and block the app—owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd.—from government devices and networks over concerns about data access by the Chinese government. The company disclosed in late December that four ByteDance employees inappropriately ...