{"id":182041,"date":"2026-04-01T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182041\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:10:10","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-permits-city-government-employees-to-use-tiktok-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182041\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani permits city government employees to use TikTok again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is allowing city government employees and agencies to use TikTok again, reversing a previous ban. Cybersecurity expert Kurt Knutsson warns about the dangers of TikTok, citing data privacy concerns and China-based servers.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reversed a ban, allowing city government employees and agencies to use TikTok again, aiming to communicate more effectively with New Yorkers. Cybersecurity expert Kurt Knutsson, &#8220;The Cyberguy,&#8221; discusses the inherent data privacy dangers of TikTok and Chinese-based servers. He notes that governments are increasingly taking control over big tech, citing Australia and Indonesia&#8217;s social media regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is allowing city government employees and agencies to use TikTok again, reversing a previous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9657,73359,9,56,63,65,64,73360,73361,87,10875,73362,73358],"class_list":{"0":"post-182041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-fox-friends-first","9":"tag-latest-news-videos","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-on-air","16":"tag-personalities","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-shows","19":"tag-v-video","20":"tag-what-to-watch-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182041","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=182041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}