Shadow home affairs minister James Paterson has highlighted a 'truly absurd' inconsistency in the Albanese government's policy towards TikTok, after the Department of Finance green-lighted taxpayer-funded advertising on the platform.
that the Department of Finance now permits trials of advertising on the Chinese-owned social media platform, despite Labor banning TikTok on government-issued devices in early April.
Shadow home affairs and cyber security minister James Paterson has spearheaded efforts to highlight the national security concerns surrounding TikTok. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage However the Albanese government has received considerable criticism about not acting to address the national security concerns relating to the platform sooner, with the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, France and the European Union all issuing their own bans in the months before Attorney-General Dreyfus’s announcement
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