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The headline is inaccurate. This is not an official action of the FCC. NYT phrased it more honestly: "An F.C.C. commissioner pushed Apple and Google to remove T

• pdabbadabba 4y ago
  Agreed. The CBC story actually gets it right too: "A commissioner with the U.S. communications regulator is asking Apple and Google to consider banning TikTok from their app stores over data security concerns related to the Chinese-owned company." But the headline misleadingly refers to Commissioner Carr as "U.S. communications regulator." One would normally think that this referred to the FCC (THE U.S. communications regulator), not just one of its commissioners.
• dang 4y ago
  Ok, we've reworded it now. Thanks! (Submitted title was "FCC asks Google, Apple to remove TikTok".)