TikTok lobbying Alberta, B.C., Manitoba and P.E.I. following government bans

Video-sharing app wants to convince provinces it’s valuable to Canadian content creators

25 Apr 2023 • 3 min read

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The video-sharing application application TikTok had been banned from government-issued phones in Canada. The company is responding with a lobbying push across the country. (Rick Rycroft/AP Photo)

Xavier Richer Vis

Xavier is a Toronto-based journalist and a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London’s master’s in digital journalism. He first joined the IJF as a data-scraping volunteer. His work has appeared in Wired.

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