{"id":181428,"date":"2026-03-31T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181428\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:20:09","slug":"new-york-mayor-mamdani-puts-citys-government-back-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181428\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mayor Mamdani puts city\u2019s government back on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost three years ago, New York City joined governments across the country in banning TikTok from its phones over security concerns about the Chinese social media site.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a bona fide social media star, took to the app to announce a reversal: \u201cTikTok, we\u2019re back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city will now allow agencies to start posting again on the short-form social media site as long as departments follow a set of security precautions, according to a memo from city cybersecurity officials provided by the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

The prohibition was established by Eric Adams, Mamdani\u2019s predecessor, in 2023, as the federal government and many US states restricted the app from government-owned devices over concerns that its parent company, ByteDance, could share data with the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

TikTok had waved off the governments\u2019 worries as unfounded. Since then it has reached an agreement to spin off its US operation in a move to alleviate those concerns and avoid a wider ban in the country.<\/p>\n

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Democratic Socialist Mamdani elected New York City mayor<\/p>\n

Democratic Socialist Mamdani elected New York City mayor<\/p>\n

In a memo on Tuesday, NYC Cyber Command, which is in charge of safeguarding city systems against cyber threats, wrote that the change was about broadening the city\u2019s communications reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost three years ago, New York City joined governments across the country in banning TikTok from its phones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73177,39170,81,6712,73102,9,24,55,54,8915,56,73174,73175,4015,9740,73176,11452,82],"class_list":["post-181428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bytedance","tag-chinese-government","tag-eric-adams","tag-federal-government","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-ny","tag-nyc-cyber-command","tag-security-concerns","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-us-states","tag-wnba","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}